Word: noakhali
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...medical team in the Noakhali district told of coming upon a tumble of "eight corpses and hundreds of carcasses. Suddenly, in this grotesque heap, a naked woman's broken body shuddered slightly." The team removed the woman, and managed to restore her to consciousness. Many of the living were almost crazed. At one point, an American helicopter bearing U.S. Ambassador Joseph S. Farland and 10-lb. sacks of rice, molasses and salt was nearly torn apart when it landed among starving Bengalis, who rushed the Ambassador and grabbed at the sacks. As the pilot swung into the air again...
...Noakhali, a woman pointed to a child's body that had lodged in the branches of a tree and wailed, "Give me my son." At Bhola, Hazrat Ali was counting corpses when suddenly he came upon the body of his little girl. He sobbed and buried his head on the dead child's chest...