AMMAN, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- Following the severe cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh, Jordan will provide emergency relief to those affected, the Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization said on Wednesday.

The aid, which will be sent during the coming two days, contains medical supplies, foodstuff, tents and blankets, Director General of the Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization Abdul Salam Abbadi added.

    He said Jordan's King Abdullah II on Tuesday ordered this dispatch of urgent assistance to Bangladesh.

    Cyclone Sidr landed on Bangladesh on Nov. 15. It is one of the fiercest cyclones that hit the country in the last 131 years, affecting 30 out of the country's 64 districts, leaving at least 3,199 dead, more than 1,000 missing and some 34,500 injured.

According to the report by the Bangladeshi Food and Disaster Management Ministry, nearly 6.9 million people of 1.6 million families were affected, some 1.2 million houses and crops on land of some 1.79 acres were damaged either completely or partially.