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Word: ramgati (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
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...first government official to visit the area reported "four boys washed away," and called other casualty figures "grossly exaggerated." But last week, eleven days after the storm struck, the estimate was that the total would be "unimaginably higher'' than the 5,000 dead reported on Ramgati and Hatia alone. Getting out of his Jeep to inspect some still-standing huts in the stricken region, East Pakistan Governor Lieut. General Azam Khan observed: "People must give up living in those places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST PAKISTAN: Disaster in the Delta | 10/31/1960 | See Source »

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