In recent days, a torrent of torrents have swept through large areas of India, Nepal, and Bangladesh, causing millions of dollars in damage and causing results of deaths.
Officials are conducting extensive rescue operations, sending food and supplies to stranded people, and directing thousands of people to homes.
Major streams, including those that pass through many nations, the Brahmaputra and the Koshi, have overflowed their businesses as a result of heavy rains.
Floods and landslides are no unusual during South Asia’s rain season, when it receives up to 90 % of its annual precipitation.
However, according to authorities, climate change has caused the situation to havegotten worse in recent years.
Officials in Nepal reported 14 deaths over the weekend, with some of the most significant deaths occurring on major highways blocked and some bridge swept aside by swollen rivers.
Specialists say that so far this year’s rainfall has killed more than 40 people. They have urged people to stay alert as the Koshi valley, which passes through Nepal and India, is flowing above the dangerous levels.
” This is not new for us, but the timing is incorrect,” Rajkumar Bk, a native of Kathmandu, told the Reuters news agency.
” The flood caused by heavy rains started in July, earlier this year. Our legs are now at the top of the water. We will have to flee for our life if the rain continues.
About 2.4 million people in the American state of Assam have been affected by storms, and 66 have died since mid-May. Authorities have issued a warning about even more weather, with Brahmaputra water levels expected to rise in the coming weeks.
Roads and large areas of land have been submerged along the institutions of the Brahmaputra, which flows through parts of India and Bangladesh, and other waterways.
In recent days, people were seen removing their belongings and removing their flooded homes by boat. Isolated villages have been cut off from the roads and bridges as a result.
Assam’s Kaziranga character supply, home to nearly 2, 200 one- winged rhinos, was also under waters. So far, there have been four animals and numerous antelope and other wildlife ‘ deaths. According to experts, this inundation incident is one of the worst in recent memory of the number of pets killed.
Authorities in Mumbai’s economic money closed some schools on Monday as heavy rains flooded some roads.
Officials in Bangladesh reported that at least eight people have died as a result of floods that have affected two million people.
A quarter of the towns in the nation have been flooded by the brimming Brahmaputra.
” We live with storms around. However, this time, the ocean was extremely high. In three days, the Brahmaputra rose by 6ft to 8ft ( 2m- 2.5m )”, Abdul Gafur, a local councillor in the district, told the AFP news agency.
” We are attempting to provide food, particularly corn and edible petrol,” the company said. But there is a consuming water issue”.
The UN’s World Meteorological Organization is predicting “above normal” rainfall for the South Asia monsoon season that is expected to last till September.