How Cyclone Yaas melted down an entire island
Mousuni in Bengalâs Sundarbans was flooded by a tidal wave on May 26. The water washed away everything in its path.
03 Jun, 2021
A tidal wave generated by Yaas leaped over a 30-foot concrete embankment and flooded Mousuni. This girl lost her home.
Zarina Bibi and her husband wade through a 100-metre stretch of knee-deep water between a dry embankment and their destroyed hut. They rest a while at a foot-wide patch of mud at the base of a date tree, where a grey duck has made its home. Even the duck, a creature of water, seems tired of the water stretching on all sides.