Cyclone Survivors Greet U.S. Aid

Survivors of a cyclone that devastated the southwestern Bangladesh coast greeted U.S. Navy teams Tuesday as they delivered clean water, food and medical supplies to thousands of people left hungry and homeless.

Helicopters from the USS Kearsarge, a multipurpose U.S. ship anchored off the Bangladesh coast, have been airlifting water containers to remote areas of the country's worst-affected districts of Dublar Char, Bagherat and Barguna, said Bangladesh Chief of Army Staff Gen. Moeen U. Ahmed.

"They have come all the way from a distant country to help us. It is a blessing from Allah," said Abdus Shahid, a 50-year-old farmer in Barguna district, one of …