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Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Burma killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless.
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Cyclone Nargis
North Indian Ocean cyclone in 2008
Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Nargis was a powerful, extremely deadly, devastating and catastrophic tropical cyclone that caused the worst natural disaster in the recorded history of Myanmar during early May 2008. The cyclone made landfall in Myanmar on Friday, 2 May 2008,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Myanmar
Country in Southeast Asia
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also referred to as Burma, is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by India and Bangladesh to its…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)