Word: patuakhali
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Officials, however, had no monopoly on insensibility. In Bhola, young Pakistanis in freshly laundered clothes played badminton only 30 minutes away by pedicab from areas where decomposing bodies lay rotting. Few Bengalis bothered to bury the "strangers" from other towns washed up on their beaches. In Patuakhali, British troops dug graves for the dead, while Pakistani soldiers lounged in their barracks...
Mass Graves. In the golden sunlight that followed the demonic storm, the survivors could see horrendous devastation on every side. Oceangoing ships were torn apart in the turbulent bay or driven aground and left stranded. Beaches and whole islands were strewn with bodies. On 13 small islands near Patuakhali, not a single human being was left alive. Paddies were blackened with salt water, the rice crop destroyed. "It looks like a graveyard with no sign of life," an official reported after flying over Hatia Island. At one village, when a newsman asked why hundreds of bodies had been left unburied...
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