Barisal Correspondent

US military helicopters and Bangladesh Air Force planes yesterday dropped food, water and medicine to tens of thousands of people along the country’s devastated coast.
Though the relief supplies and aid pledges have poured into the country from around the globe, it has been slow in reaching the survivors, partly because many of them are in remote areas.
However, things are getting better slowly.
The Naval chief said relief reached to 95 per cent of the affected areas and the rest 5 per cent would get it very soon. [Read more]