TIL Desk/World/Dhaka/ Bangladesh has incurred losses worth 11 billion taka ($129 million) due to cyclone Amphan which has caused damages to housing, infrastructure, fisheries, livestock, water resources and agriculture, according to initial government estimates.
Enamur Rahman, state minister for disaster management and relief, revealed the figure in a virtual press conference on Thursday. At least 26 districts across the country have been affected by the cyclone, the Minister said. The ministry has put the death toll from Cyclone Amphan at 10.
A tally of data from local administrations however put the death toll at 12. The cyclone struck the Indian states of West Bengal and Odisha on Wednesday evening and moved into Bangladesh later in the night, devastating villages, tearing down power lines, collapsing dams and leaving large tracts of land under water.
