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Dhaka, May 26 (bdnews24.com)—The death count from cyclone 'Aila' that flung itself to the exposal coastline on Monday has reached 34 with more than 100 missing until midday Tuesday . The storm wreaked havoc on nine unions of Shyamnagar Upazila on Monday, leaving 20 people dead until morning, said a senior official from Satkhira district control room. Four died in Chandpur and two Chapainwabganj in addition to eight who died on Monday after the cyclone, packing winds up to 110 kph, made landfall along the coastline. Motiur Rahman, Shyamnagar police chief said, army personnel and Shyamnagar police salvaged the 20 dead bodies from Gabura and other places contiguous to the Sundarbans. An estimated 30 people were still missing. Satkhira district has been without any power supply since 11am on Monday until 11:30am, the bdnews24.com correspondent said. Several thousands homes were washed away and croplands damaged in tidal surges in low-lying coastal areas and on offshore islands in the Bay of Bengal. The government on Tuesday said five people died in the cyclone in Bhola and Potuakhali districts. Of them, three died in Char Fashion in Bhola and one each in Baufal and Galachipa in Patuakhali district, disaster management minister Abdur Razzaq said at a press briefing in Dhaka. However, bdnews24.com correspondents in Noakhali and Barisal report that three more died in the districts. At least 72 people are missing in trawler capsize and flooding in Bhola district. Thousands of people were shifted to makeshift emergency shelters along the southwestern coastlines which were lashed by tidal surges damaging nearly a dozen of flood control structures like dams, marooning thousands others. It is the second storm in the Bay of Bengal in less than one month. Several people were killed and hundreds of thatched houses destroyed in Cox's Bazar on April 17. Operations at the Chittagong and Mongla ports and movement of ferries at Chandpur, Barisal, Mawa and Paturia were suspended. River communications in the coastal districts were also snapped. However, the secretary to the Chittagong Port Authority, Syed Farhad Uddin, told bdnews24.com that the normal operation of the port resumed late Monday afternoon. Khulna district relief officer Sheikh Alimuzzaman said on Monday a number of villages in Batiaghata, Dakop, Paikgachha, Kaira and Dumuria Upazilas were flooded as the dam gave in at 36 places. In Satkhira, over 60 villages were flooded, Tabibar Rahman of district control cell said. A number of villages in Patuakhali and Bagerhat were also flooded, officials said. Bakerganj Upzila Nirbahi Officer Mehedi Masuduzzaman said a child named Rabbi died from falling in the yard while playing as wind-fed surge rose to four-five feet high. He said over 150 villages were damaged in two village under Mehendiganj Upazila in Barisal. Red Crescent Society's Bhola region official Bashir Ahmed said Char Fashion Upazila's Dhalchar, Char Kukrimukri, Char Patila, Char Hasina, Char Nizam and Char Kashpia were under 8-10 feet water.

Relief and rescue
Razzaq, the disaster management minister, said prime minister Sheikh Hasina directed the MPs to visit the affected areas. As many as 42,000 volunteers along with army, navy and coast guard members are conducting rescue and relief operations in the affected areas under local arrangements. Razzaq said damage and casualties were not severe as the wind speed caused by the cyclone was less. However, the height of the surges was much higher than before, 12 to 13 feet at places, forcing many people to seek shelter on rooftops. At places dams gave in due to the surge, flooding the areas inside the dams. The government granted 1000 metric tonnes of rice and Tk 12 lakh as relief for the affected people, the minister said adding there were already sufficient stocks of relief in the affected districts. The storm battered and flooded villages, forced thousands of people from their homes, uprooted trees and knocked out power and telephone poles, officials said.