Video: 'Bhola Cyclone 13 November 1970 : What is the real lesson of Bhola in 1970'

(Thursday, November 12, 1970, made landfall on the East Pakistan coastline during the evening, Bangladesh Standard Time) — Half a million people died tonight as the 1970 Bhola cyclone struck East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh) and India’s West Bengal, devastating the Ganges Delta region.

Video: 'Natural Disaster | Bangladesh (East Pakistan) | Bhola cyclone | This Week |1970'

It remains the deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded and one of the deadliest natural disasters.