Word: meghna
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Across the Nicobars, the International Red Cross estimates a death toll of 30,000 out of a population of 50,000. Meghna Rajsekhar, 13, saw the ocean swallow her mother and father, and after floating at sea for two days on a wooden door, she washed up on a Car Nicobar beach that was swarming with snakes. Newspapers wrote of refugees in Great Nicobar fending off crocodiles as they trekked through the jungle in search of water. For Aisha Majid, the tribal leader of Nancowry, an island filled with the homeless, the government's actions make no sense. She asks...
...government announced two inquiries into the sinking of an overcrowded ferry that killed more than 500 people, as criticism mounted of its failure to enforce safety measures. Only 220 people survived out of an estimated 750 passengers on the triple-decker MV Nasreen, which sank in the River Meghna near the southeastern town of Chandpur; the vessel was licensed to carry only 350 people...