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1,700 Still Missing in Bangladesh

HeadlineNov 26, 2007

In Bangladesh, more than 1,700 people are still missing from a deadly cyclone that hit the country eleven days ago. The cyclone killed at least 3,400 people and left another 360,000 homeless. Aid groups say money is urgently needed. Bridget Steffen of Save the Children said thousands of families along Bangladesh’s battered coastline are living in the open.

Bridget Steffen: “The water supply is a real problem. People don’t have access to clean water or to sanitation, to where, you know, latrines have all been destroyed… We need urgent funds to be able to really address the needs of children and of the whole population of this area that has experienced such devastation.”

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