Rescuers searched for bodies today after a bridge collapsed under the weight of thousands of hungry cyclone survivors stampeding for food in southern Bangladesh, but were struggling to shift a massive concrete slab obstructing their efforts.

OVERBURDENED relief centres scrambled to help tens of thousands of cyclone survivors yesterday as fist fights broke out amongvictims waiting for rice.

Bangladesh asked for foreign aid today to help thousands of survivors of Cyclone Sidr, as the death toll rose to more than 3,100 people.

THE Government yesterday pledged €500,000 towards the massive relief effort in cyclone-devastated Bangladesh.