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of Bangladesh Coast
After only one and half year of cyclone Sidr, cyclone Aila
hit the coastal zone on 25 May 2009 when the people
were trying to recover their damage20. The cyclone Aila
killed 193 people and damaged 46 thousand houses21.
228 villages of 4 Upazilas under Khulna and Satkhira
districts were totally flooded by saline water as the coastal
embankments were breached by severe storm surge22.
More than 400 thousand people were displaced by
cyclone Aila23 while at 123 thousand people migrated to
urban areas after losing houses, crops and livelihood
opportunities24. Cyclone Aila induced displacement
scenario is given bellow25:
Primarily Displaced
450,000
123,000
46,500
14,500
But the migrants were not relieved from the curse! Due to
economical crisis, 97 percent of the forced migrants took
shelter in the slum areas while 53 percent live in mudmade houses and 24 percent under the roof of corrugated
iron-sheet. Only 7 percent of them can live in brick-made
houses.
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