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Event: ST SEVERE LOCAL STORM
Number: 2005-000162
Country: BGD Bangladesh
Location: Bay of Bengal
Date (YMD): 2005-9-20
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Information Source:Reuters AlertNet
Comments: More than 300 fishermen were posted missing on Tuesday after a storm triggered high swells along the Bangladesh coast, a local official said.
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ST-2005-000162-IND
SEVERE LOCAL STORM,India: At least 1,000 people were missing in southern India on Wednesday and hundreds of fishermen were unaccounted for in Bangladesh after a severe storm in the Bay of Bengal killed 50 people, officials said. Indian authorities said about 100,000 people were homeless after heavy rains this week caused flooding in the coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh state, with strong winds uprooting thousands of trees and electricity poles.