Bangladesh seeks foreign aid after cyclone

BANGLADESH: Bangladesh said Monday it was struggling to reach hundreds of thousands of cyclone victims and would seek foreign aid to rebuild scores of damaged homes and roads.

The call for help came a week after Cyclone Aila battered southern Bangladesh and West Bengal in India, killing almost 300 people.

Bangladesh's food and disaster management minister Abdur Razzak told AFP that some half a million people were still stranded after the cyclone wiped out homes and destroyed more than 1,400 kilometres (870 miles) of embankments.

Koyra, Monday, AFP