Power supply suffered massive disruptions since yesterday evening as the hurricane started whipping the coastal areas, consequently tripping the local electricity grids of the districts, officials said.

Bangladesh Power Development Board chairman and other senior officials were monitoring efforts to restore power generation and supply system.

Low-lying areas of many coastal districts were inundated as storm surge whipped by raging winds washed the areas.

"It was the worst nightmare of its kind I have ever experienced," a Patuakhali police official quoted an elderly man as saying while narrating the nightlong horrors. Thousands of people were injured in the south and south-western regions and most houses there were either fully or partially damaged in the cyclonic storm, one of the worst in the country.

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