In pictures: The impact of Cyclone Aila

Water gushing in through a break in the embankment at Gabura, Satkhira, Bangladesh on 26 May 2009. Most of the houses, crops and cattle were washed away during the cyclone.
Photo credit: Abir Abdullah/EPA

An Oxfam India team on 27 May found this family waiting on the roof of their collapsed house. Most of the homes in the area are mud houses with either thatched or tiled roofs. 95 per cent of these have been washed away. The houses still standing may soon fall down as the mud will start drying up.
Photo credit: Oxfam India

A homeless woman and her son take shelter inside a pipe from a storm in Kolkata, 25 May.
Photo credit: REUTERS/Jayanta Shaw, courtesy www.alertnet.org

Cyclone survivors wait for relief supplies at Akshaynagar in the Sundarbans delta, about 100 km (62 miles) south of Kolkata, 26 May. This school building has been converted into a relief camp, as have many others in the region.
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A water logged Bangladeshi woman in search of drinking water, Gabura, Satkhira, 26 May. Cyclone survivors are now facing a severe risk of disease as the supply of safe drinking water is reaching crisis levels.
Photo credit: Abir Abdullah/EPA

Flood-affected people move to safer places after receiving relief supplies on the outskirts of Siliguri in West Bengal, 26 May.
Photo credit: REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri, courtesy www.alertnet.org

A man carries his belongings to a safe place on the outskirts of Siliguri in West Bengal, May 26, 2009.
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Bangladeshi family members hold onto a fear struck child as they wade through flood water to safer places.
Photo credit: Abir Abdullah

Labourers ride a trishaw through a flooded street in Kolkata on 25 May.
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Most of the people in these areas are dependent on vegetable farming, but they have lost their crops as saline flood water has inundated their fields. People in some of the villages where water receded quickly have been able to save the stored food grains. But other villages have not been so lucky and are still facing severe food shortages, 3 June.
Photo credit: Oxfam India

Cyclone survivors inspect the damage to their house at Patharpatima Island in the Sundarbans delta, about 100 km (62 miles) south of Kolkata, 26 May.
Photo credit: REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri, courtesy www.alertnet.org

Human, animal and fish corpses are polluting the countryside. The sanitation systems have collapsed in all the cyclone-affected areas.
Photo credit: Oxfam India