CYCLONE HITS EAST PAKISTAN
Three Steamboats Sink At Sea
(N.ZP.A.-Reuter—Copyright) KARACHI, May 9. I hree steamboats were today reported to have sunk in the Bay of Bengal after a severe cyclone hit the East Pakistan coast. First reports did not say how big the boats were or how many people were on board. . .In Chittagong yesterday, weather experts warned of an imminent cyclone in East Pakistan’s coastal belt of almost the same intensity as the disastrous storm last October, in which 14,174 people were killed.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29509, 10 May 1961, Page 15
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