School-cum-cyclone shelter
A multipurpose cyclone shelter was inaugurated at Mirzaganj upazila headquarters yesterday.
The school-cum-cyclone shelter was jointly opened by Saria Sadique, managing director of BASF Bangladesh and Hans Hinrich Schnelle, first secretary of German Embassy.
Built on the field of Subidkhali Rahman Ishaq High School, it was financed by BASF, a German based multinational company.
A local construction firm built the three-storied building at a cost of Tk 75 lakh.
The cyclone shelter was built in remembrance of cyclone Sidr that
hit the area and killed at least 115 people on November 15 in 2007.
When the cyclone Sidr hit the area with a tidal surge upto 12 feet high, people ran to the school for shelter but it could not accommodate many of them.
Subhas Chandra, headmaster of the school himself died when one of his school buildings collapsed on him.
Salma A Shafi, project Manager of UN Habitat, Gazi Ataharuddin,
Mirzaganj upazila chairman, Kazi Mokhlesur Rahman, president of
upazila unit Awami League, Abdul Aziz, headmaster of the institute were present at the inaugural function.
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