It was a dark night on November 15, 2007. While most were asleep on the Northern part of Bangladesh the South was waiting for the looming hurricane (known as cyclone in this part of the world) formed on the Bay of Bengal. It made landfall around late evening with category 4 (more than 150 miles per hour) ripping parts of the Sundarban (the largest mangrove forest in the world), uprooting trees and lives that came on its path. The death toll is expected to go over 2,000. Current official estimate is 1723. 
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