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Cyclone, diarrhoea killed 1.43 lakh in Bangladesh in '91
UNDATED. Dec 29 : Mother nature was especially cruel lo the Asia-Pacific region In
asters Including the year's worst In the world — the April 29 cyclone in Bangladesh, reports AFP.
The region also suffered many disasters of the kind that are an unfortunate and often preventable part of modern life — such as explosions and air-. plane crashes — Including the May 26 Lauda air crash In Thailand.
Up to 139,000 people died tn the Bangladesh cyclone, the worst to hit the impoverished country In 20 years and the worst disaster in the world In 1991 tn terms of sheer scale. Millions were left homeless and property damage was estimated at about 1.8 billion dollars.
The country also suffered Its worst diarrhoea epidemic, largely attributed to the cyclone as well as lo frequent flooding In northern and western Bangladesh. More than 4.000 people died of the disease the first 10 months of the year.
Flooding was rampant in much of the region.
China's breadbasket saw its worst floods since 1954. Relentless raink battered the eastern and central provinces, especially Jiangsu and Anhui, .with the Yangtze river overflowing in several places.
The floods caused 64,000 casualties, killing 3,074 people by the official count and caused a grain shortfall of some 25 hilllion tonnes according lo the bleakest estimates. More than 10 million people were left homeless.
Monsoon flooding caused at least 600 deaths In India, while Burma's worst floods in 50 years affected more than 280,000 people in the Irrawaddy delta In Jute. Flash floods olaimcd 16 lives In northern Thailand In September.
In Indonesia, floods accompanied by landslides left more than 100.000 people homeless tn central Sumatra in December after a year plagued by a nation wide drought which caused massive crop failures and forest fires . The Philippines had a siring of natural, disasters notable as much for their drama as for their frequency.
The Mount Plnalubo vol cano. sporadically active for several months starting in March, had Its biggest eruption on June 15, coinciding with typhoon Yunia and a moderate earthquake.
The death toll attributed to the eruption, consequent mudflows and outbreaks of disease al evacuation centres was upwards of 600, and hundreds of thousands of people were displaced
Other vtdcanocs to erupt In the rteglon were Japan's Mount Unzen, killing 43 people, and Indonesia s Mount Lokon, which claimed the life of a Swiss tourist.
But II was typhoon Thelma that unicased the most lethal disaster to hit the PhlHppinps this year, claiming up to 7,000 lives in early November. Thelma struck a week after typhoon Ruth claimed 44 lives In the northern Philippines.
An earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale hit northwestern Pakistan- and eastern Afghanistan on
February 1. claiming 1,500 lives 1n Afghanistan and 200 in Pakistan.
Another massive earthquake struck October 20 in India's northern Uttar Pradesh State near the Tibetan border, killing some 1.500 people and Injuring 3.000. It measured 6.5 on the Richter scale.
The Asia-Pacific region also suffered a number of manmade disasters In 1991.
The highest profile disaster to hit Thailand In 1991 was the Crash of a Uiuda Air Boeing 767.in which all 223 passengers and crew died. The crash of the Vienna bound flight was Thailand* worst air disaster.
In the region s second largest air crash of the yeas. 136 people died when a military transport plane crashed in eastern Jakarta on October 5.
In India on November 5 some 200 people. mostly slum dwellers, died in New Delhi sfter drinking a liquor substitute while celebrating a Hindu festival Poisonous bootleg liquor tn two southern dry' slates claimed 35 lives on November 30
On February 15, a dynamite truck overturned while taking a sharp curve on a busy road in southern Thailand, then exploded after hundreds of local residents had gathered lo see the accident, leaving 171 people dead.
In a similar accident In India, a chemical tanker overturned and exploded in Dhanu village near Bombay, killing 70 people.
In southern Pakistan's horrific collision in June between an express train and a stationary freight train left about 100 people dead and 200 injured.