Storm survivors eat on a relief center in Mirzagannj, 310 km (193 miles) from Dhaka, November 18, 2007. Grieving survivors and rescuers picked through the rubble left in the wake of a super cyclone that battered Bangladesh. The death toll shot up to 2,579 till 5:00 pm Monday, according to the Food and Disaster Management Ministry. A government official declared the disaster "a national calamity". [Agencies]