(15 May 2023)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Saint Martin, Bangladesh - 15 May 2023
1. Various of drone shots of damage to Saint Martin Island in Cox’s Bazar
2. Wide of Saint Martin Island shore, broken coconut tree
3. Various of washed up, damaged boats
4. Various of local resident, Zakir Hossain and his relative moving damaged furniture
5. Kitten walking amongst debris
6. SOUNDBITE (Bangla) Zakir Hossain, Saint Martin resident:
“I used to run a grocery business at the nearby market. I had a cottage where my family, my daughters lived. The cottage got damaged. I will have to struggle for survival.”
7. Various of exterior of damaged home
8. Close of family inside damaged home
9. Tracking shot of Coast Guard personnel delivering aid
10. Locals waiting for delivery of supplies
11. SOUNDBITE (Bangla) Muhammad Shaheen Imran, Deputy Commissioner of Cox’s Bazar district:
“Saint Martin has braced huge damage. Now we are preparing an assessment of the partially and completely damaged households. We will soon start rehabilitation following the instructions from the District Administration and Relief and Disaster Management Ministry."
12. Various of Coast Guard personnel helping cyclone victims in removing debris from their damaged house

STORYLINE:
Bangladeshi officials estimated 2,000 homes on Saint Martin's Island and Teknaf in Cox's Bazar district were destroyed by powerful cyclone, with 10,000 damaged.

U.N. agencies and aid workers in Bangladesh had prepositioned tons of dry food and dozens of ambulances in the refugee camps that house more than 1 million Rohingya Muslims who fled persecution in Myanmar.

Authorities had evacuated hundreds of thousands of people before the cyclone veered east.

About a dozen people were injured on Saint Martin’s Island, the Prothom Alo newspaper reported.

No deaths were reported.

In May 2008, Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar with a storm surge that devastated populated areas around the Irrawaddy River delta. At least 138,000 people died and tens of thousands of homes and other buildings were washed away.

Roxy Mathew Koll, a climate scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology in Pune city, said cyclones in the Bay of Bengal are becoming more intense more quickly, in part because of climate change.

Climate scientists say cyclones can now retain their energy for many days.

Cyclone Amphan in eastern India in 2020 continued to travel over land as a strong cyclone and caused extensive devastation.

“As long as oceans are warm and winds are favorable, cyclones will retain their intensity for a longer period,” Koll said.

Tropical cyclones, which are called hurricanes or typhoons in other regions, are among the world’s most devastating natural disasters when they hit densely populated coastal areas.

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