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Friday, 16 November 2007, 17:18 GMT
In pictures: Bangladesh cyclone
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A cyclone has torn through Bangladesh, flattening several villages and leaving hundreds of people dead. By the time it reached the capital, Dhaka, it had lost some of its force.
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This newborn baby, cradled by its grandmother, survived and was named Cyclone.
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With tens of thousands of homes estimated damaged or destroyed, many families were forced to seek shelter on foot carrying what they could.
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Hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated and many sought refuge in emergency shelters like this one near Mongla port, around 320km (199 miles) south of Dhaka.
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The storm caused a virtual national blackout, as this girl in a shelter at Mongla discovered.
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Many people are thought to have been killed as falling trees levelled fragile houses made of thatch, wood and tin.
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Elephants helped remove fallen trees that blocked roads across the country, frustrating attempts by the authorities to reach stricken areas.
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At least 150 fishing trawlers, like this one, failed to return to shore and a UN agency reportedly said 1,000 fishermen were missing.
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