Staff Reporter
The United Nations said the humanitarian crisis caused by Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh was much worse than previously thought, with more than two million people in need of immediate life-saving assistance.
“As more information becomes available, an even grimmer reality is being revealed,” the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in a statement released in Dhaka yesterday. Nearly three weeks after cyclone Sidr battered the country’s southwestern coastal districts, the UN said 2.6 million people were still in dire need of life-saving assistance. [Read more]