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Barisal

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Ba·ri·sal  (br-sôl, br-säl)
A city of southern Bangladesh on the Ganges River delta. The phenomenon known as "the Barisal guns," unexplained sounds resembling distant thunder or cannon fire, may be seismic in origin. Population: 193,000.

Ba•ri•sal (ˌbʌr əˈsɑl, ˈbær əˌsɔl)

n.
a port in S Bangladesh, on the Ganges River. 188,000.


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Barisal is a temporary halt on the road to Chittagong or Dhaka for people who have lost land, their only possession--land seized by the powerful, deeds of ownership falsified by corrupt officials, land subdivided into uneconomic parcels by inheritance.
The cyclone snapped road and river communications in Barisal.
Born and brought up in Barisal, a southern district of Bangladesh - a country that has been prone to devastating floods - she now lives and works in Dhaka with her husband and three-year-old twin girls.
 
 
 
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