Three days of intense storms in Bangladesh have forced 500,000 people from their homes, and lead to 15 deaths. At least another 50 people are missing.<br /><br />Fifteen people are dead and almost half a million more are homeless after three days of intense storms in Bangladesh.\<br /><br />Another 50 are missing, likely fishermen who were out to sea when the storms began to batter the country's coast with 1.5 metre waves on Thursday.<br /><br />The storms also dumped 300 millimetres of rain, that's nearly 12 inches, causing flash flooding and tidal surges.<br /><br />Many of the people hit hardest by the storm live in huts made of bamboo and straw along the country's water-logged coast, which is home to some 15 million.<br /><br />With nowhere else to go, several families have set up camp along roads.<br /><br />[Manu Munshi, Storm Victim]<br />"I have taken my family members to a road side as water was up to neck deep, the water took all our belongings, we could not save anything, now we all are here on the road."<br /><br />This is not the first time the low-lying country has weathered such powerful sea storms in recent years.<br /><br />Over 3,000 people were killed by Cyclone Sidr in November 2007.<br /><br />Hundreds more died when Cyclone Aila hit in 2009.
