Bangladesh evacuates 2 million people

dhaka - Bangladesh evacuates 2 million people from coastal areas, because there Saturday night the cyclone Roanu comes ashore.

The cyclone caused heavy rains this week in Sri Lanka, which caused landslides. Two of them may have cost the lives of 150 people. More than 223 000 people had to leave their homes.

,, Low-lying areas in the coastal areas are likely to flood by flood waves 1 to 1.5 meters above normal tide ', the meteorological institute in Bangladesh reported Friday.
  
    
     
      
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India and Myanmar are braced for tropical storm. In India, people have also been evacuated from low-lying areas.

Bangladesh has in recent years become several times victims of natural disasters. In 2007, 3,000 people died by Cyclone Sidr and two years later claimed the tropical storm Aila two hundred lives.