At least 100 fishermen and some 20 boats were reported missing Tuesday in the Bay of Bengal after a tropical cyclone hit the fragile Bangladeshi coastline, officials said.

Senior weather officer Sujit Dev said winds at speeds of nearly 90 km per hour crossed in the Myanmar-Bangladesh cost in a north easterly direction early Tuesday. The cyclonic storm, however, moved further into the interior and fizzled out as a land based depression, Dev said.

"The core of the storm was about 100km from Cox's Bazar at midnight on Monday and could slam the shores early on Tuesday with wind speed of 120km per hour," Deepak Chandra Nath, a meteorological official, said.

The 12 seamen from three fishing trawlers were reported missing by rescuers in the southern Barguna port.

More than 60,000 people were evacuated from the villages close to the shores, were tens of thousands of houses were devastated, according to sources in the Disaster Management Ministry.

The government suspended operations at the Chittagong port during the storm. The city, located 290 km south of the capital Dhaka, is the busiest in Bangladesh.

Private television channel ATN said Tuesday that Bangladeshi fishermen rescued a group of Myanmar sailors lost near the island of Saint Martin.