Authorities are sending relief supplies including rice and other dry food to affected areas, where many poor residents already have very little and scratch a living as fishermen or farmers. Television footage showed villagers sitting helplessly in front of their flattened houses. "In a moment my home was destroyed, an unnamed villager in Bhola island off the Barisal coast told pri vate Independent television. More than 80 villages in Barisal were flooded after a rain swollen dam burst and forced residents to flee, the Daily Star newspaper reported yesterday. Seawater gushed through shops and warehouses in the commercial hub and main port city of Chittagong, police and industry officials said. AFP