Modern Era · South Asia · Disaster
1970
Bhola cyclone kills five hundred thousand
November 13, 1970
A tropical cyclone drove a storm surge up the Bay of Bengal and across the low-lying islands of East Pakistan at night. It was the deadliest storm in modern history, killing around five hundred thousand people. The government in West Pakistan barely responded. The disaster fed the Bengali nationalist fury that would birth Bangladesh.
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