At least 11 people have died in the submerged coastal areas due to the storm whipped up by depression in the Bay of Bengal.
Hundreds of fishermen are still reported missing. Some of them have reportedly taken shelters in the coast of West Bengal, India.
Due to rough weather a number of launch services have been halted in the country's southern areas. Ferry services have also been disrupted.
The country has been facing a constant downpour for the last two days due to the depression.
Several thousand people have already taken shelter at cyclone centres in the coastal areas.
The Campaign for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods, Oxfam International's alliance of 200 civil society and grass root organisations, on Friday expressed grave concern over media reports of the missing 140 fishermen.
The pressure group, based on scientific analysis, believes that Bangladeshi fishermen are particularly vulnerable when these kinds of disasters strike.
The Met Office on Friday afternoon said the low pressure on the Bay has started to move to the coastal areas and will soon be weakened.
In the morning, it warned of a tidal surge 7-feet above normal level due to the depression over the coast and has issued cautionary signal No. 3 as a well-marked low pressure formed over the west-central part of the Bay of Bengal and its adjoining northern areas. However, the Met Office said that there wasn't any possibility of floods in those areas and the low pressure would cross the coast in the evening.
bdnews24.com Barguna correspondent reports three people in the district have been killed. Among them two died in Amtali Upazila as their houses collapsed on them. The two were identified as Minara Begum, 30, of Shakhria Village and Naren, 7, of Tiakhali Village.
Upazila vice-chairman Shamsuddin Shanu told bdnews24.com on Friday morning at least 15 have been injured getting trapped under collapsed houses and uprooted trees. The injured have been admitted to district health complexes.
Amtoli Union Parishad member Kabir Hossain told bdnews.com that another fisherman drowned when a trawler MV Azmir capsized on Thursday night in Bain Bunia area.
'Shafin', 5, of Charkalni village also drowned on Friday.
Local sources have informed that about 100,000 people have been marooned in Barguna coastal districts due to embankment breaches.
Also four fishermen trawlers have capsized on Friday night and 27 fishermen went missing, local people have informed.
Barguna Trawler Workers Union president Abdul Mannan Majhi on Friday noon said, "One missing fisherman Yusuf Majhi of Badurtala village told her wife Fatima Begum through cell-phone that 358 fishermen of 27 trawlers of Barguna took shelter in Indian border area."
Bagerhat correspondent says three people, including two brothers, died in the district.
Ranju Molla, 18, and Moir Molla, 26, sons of Taiab Molla, 68, of Kahalu village under Mollahat Upazila, were killed by lightening on Friday noon.
Taiab was also injured that time.
Kawsar Halder, 35, son of Quader Halder of Sonatali village under Sharankhola Upazila, was drowned while he was fishing on the Bhola River.
In Barisal, daughter of 'Hashem' of Madarkati village under Banaripara Upazila, 'Urmi', 4, was drowned on Friday morning. She was later recovered and taken to the health complex. But she died on the way.
At Alimabad village under Muladi Upazila, one Shilpi Begum, 25, was killed in lightning around 3pm when she went out of her home during the storm, local Ansar member Mokfar Uddin said.
In Bhola, 'Momtaz', 40, of Charnolua village under Charfashion Upazila, was killed when her house collapsed as a tree uprooted on the house. Twenty-five people were injured that time.
Masuma Khatun, 60, of South Fashion village in the Upazila, and 'Sojol', 5, of Charjatin village under Monpura Upazila, were drowned on Friday.
On Thursday night, the embankments in Chittagong's coastal areas Anwara and Bashkhali breached and a number of villages were swamped, said bdnews24.com Chittagong correspondent. More than 150,000 people in those areas have been marooned.
The Feni correspondent reports about 12 villages in the coastal district Shonagazi have submerged ruining homes, crops and cattle.
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