The incident took place in North Rampur village of Madhabkhali Union under Mirzaganj Upazila at around 3:30am on Sunday, said Upazila Executive Officer Md Sarwar Hossain. Cyclone Bulbul now lies over Khulna and the adjoining southwestern part of Bangladesh, according to the government’s latest weather bulletin. It took about three more hours for the entire storm system to move across the shorelines. The wind speed near the centre of the storm was 95-105kph gusting to 115kph at the time, the IMD said. The storm later moved north-eastwards into Bangladesh and was crossing Satkhira coasts about 3:15am, said Zulfiker Ali Ripon, the in-charge of the Bangladesh Meteorological Department in the district.

Source: bd News24 November 10, 2019 04:14 UTC