Cyclone rips through Bangladesh

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An elephant pushes a stranded bus as it is employed to clear a road in Barishal, south of Bangladesh's capital on Friday. More than 1,000 residents were reported killed across the impoverished country.

Relatives of cyclone victims wail in Barishal on Friday. Power and communications in the capital, Dhaka, were also down.

A Bangladeshi woman who lost her hut in the cyclone weeps in Barishal. The cyclone flattened thousands of flimsy huts, uprooted trees, electricity and telephone poles, and destroyed crops and fish farms in 15 coastal districts, local government officials and witnesses said.

A grandmother holds a newborn baby who was named Cyclone after he was born during the storm in Bangladesh. They live in Barishal, 75 miles south of Bangladesh's capital.

A car passes after heavy waves brought sea water into the Marina Beach off the Bay of Bengal, in Chennai, India, Friday. A cyclone slammed into Bangladesh's coast. The storm spared India's eastern coast, where the weather was calm Friday.

This satellite view, supplied by NASA, shows Tropical Cyclone Sidr. he storm roared across the country's southwestern coast late Thursday with driving rain and high waves, leveling homes and forcing the evacuation of 650,000 villagers, officials said.

Bangladesh residents of Barishal watch the rains roll in Thursday before the cyclone's full fury was felt.

A man cuts down the top of a wind-damaged tree near Batajor.

Rescue workers in speed boats help people amid swells in the Padma River in Mawa on Friday.

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An elephant pushes a stranded bus as it is employed to clear a road in Barishal, south of Bangladesh's capital on Friday. More than 1,000 residents were reported killed across the impoverished country.

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