Tornado Toll in Bangladesh Is Expected to Reach 1,000

April 29, 1989 : Soldiers recovered more bodies from fields and from under rubble in central Bangladesh, bringing to at least 700 the death toll from a tornado that devastated the area two days earlier. Soldiers recovered more bodies from fields and from under rubble in central Bangladesh, bringing to at least 700 the death toll from a tornado that devastated the area two days earlier. Government officials said they believed many bodies were still hidden under wreckage. ''It seems the death toll will pass 1,000 when all the wreckage has been cleared,'' one official told reporters.