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A man stands above water from a tidal surge that had inundated a village during a storm in Mirzaganj
18 Nov 2007
Source: Reuters
 
A man stands above water from a tidal surge that had inundated a village during a storm as it flows back into the river Paira in Mirzaganj, 310 km (193 miles) from the capital Dhaka, November 18, 2007. Grieving survivors and rescuers picked through the rubble left in the wake of a super cyclone that battered Bangladesh as the death toll reached over 2,200 on Sunday and a government official declared the disaster "a national calamity". REUTERS/Rafiqur Rahman (BANGLADESH)
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