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Bangladesh evacuates thousands as storm nears

Thousands of families have been evacuated from their homes over a dozen coastal districts of Bangladesh as a severe cyclone heads in from the Bay of Bengal, officials said on Thursday. The storm, classified category 4 by the weather tracker Tropical Storm Risk, would likely make landfall in Bangladesh, any time from around 2 p.m. (0800 GMT) packing winds more than 210 km (130 miles) per hour. Full Story