e-News® | The NEWS Company…DHAKA, March 06, 2016 : Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has given cash assistance of one million dollars (approximately Taka eight crore) to the people of Fiji who were affected in the recent devastating cyclone, a press release of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said here today.
The South Pacific island country experienced “human disaster” due to the February 20 cyclone. Cyclone Winston, the worst storm recorded in the southern hemisphere, left 42 people dead and made homeless tens of thousands of people in Fiji, according to Fiji’s National Disaster Management Office. It may be mentioned that the Bangladesh Premier earlier provided cash and food assistance after devastating earthquake in Nepal on April 25 in 2015, the release said.