Staff Reporter

Millions of people started leaving homes on the coastlines following Government advice yesterday evening, when the Met Office issued “great danger signal” No 10 for the southwestern Mongla Port and danger signal No 9 in a scale of 10 for the southeastern Chittagong and Cox’s Bazar ports as the cylonic storm in the bay was moving fast towards the Bangladesh coast.
Hundreds of thousands of volunteers, aided by the local authorities and Bangladesh Red Crecsent Society, have been helping the people to go to safer places immediately after the Government ordered a massive evacuation. [Read more]