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ON THE BRINK OF CATASTROPHE
Suborna Mondol still lives on the brink of disasters. Four years after the cyclone Aila wreaked havoc in the coastal belts of Bangladesh, another tidal surge on August 8 washed away the bamboo built homes of 23 families including Suborna's, as they remained outside the purview of an embankment built after Aila to protect villagers in Dacope, Khulna.
Ananta Yusuf
An unplanned construction of the embankment has left many villagers unprotected. The Star has found that Water Development Board (WDB) made a two-kilometre (km) long dam leaving the lower delta of Sutarkhali Union, Dacope exposed to similar natural catastrophes in…