FENI, Bangladesh: Nearly 300, 000 Bangladeshis were taking refuge in emergency shelters on Saturday ( Aug 24 ) from floods that inundated vast areas of the low-lying South Asian country, disaster officials said.
At least 42 people have died in Bangladesh and India as a result of the storms, many of whom have been victims of floods, since the start of the year.
” My home is totally inundated”, Lufton Nahar, 60, told AFP from a comfort house in Feni, one of the worst-hit regions near the border with India’s Tripura position.
” Water is flowing above our roof. By ship, my nephew brought us here. If he had n’t, we may have died”.
The 170 million-strong country has thousands of rivers crisscrossing it and experienced frequent floods in recent years.
Despite the fact that monsoon rains annually cause widespread death, climate change is changing weather patterns and causing more extreme weather events.
Between the money Dhaka and the principal port city of Chittagong, the access to severely flooded districts was hampered by the damage to the railroad and highway networks, which impeded business activity.