Bangladesh was hit by out of the *** deadliest tropical cyclones recorded in the past half a century. The storm that hit the country in 1970 caused the largest number of deaths in the period, with approximately *** thousand casualties. It was followed by storm Gorsky, which hit the country *** decades later, and caused roughly *** thousand deaths. India also recorded of the top ten deadliest cyclones of the past decades, but with a much lower death toll than the ones seen in neighboring Bangladesh.
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