Weather.com - Farid Hossain, AP
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A Bangladeshi woman holds an infant while resting at a cyclone shelter center before Cyclone Mahasen made landfall in Chittagong, Bangladesh, Thursday, May 16, 2013.
COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh — Cyclone Mahasan weakened Thursday afternoon into a tropical storm and then dissipated, causing far less damage than had been feared as it passed over Bangladesh and spared Myanmar almost entirely, meteorological officials said.
At least 45 deaths related to Mahasen were reported in Bangladesh, Myanmar and Sri Lanka, but officials had prepared for a far greater storm. Bangladesh evacuated 1 million people from coastal areas and the United Nations warned that 8.2 million people could face life-threatening conditions.
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