Authorities in Gujarat, India, reported on Wednesday ( Jul. 3 ) that more than a million people had been flooded in the areas of northeast India and neighboring Bangladesh, killing six people.
Monsoon rains kill thousands of people annually, but researchers claim climate change is changing conditions habits and increasing the number of extreme weather events.
Four people have died over the past day, according to catastrophe authorities in India’s northern state of Assam, bringing the total number of people killed that over subsequent downpours to 38 since mid-May.
Two people, including a Rohingya migrant, were killed by landslides in Bangladesh on Wednesday morning, according to police chief Jahirul Hoque Bhuiyan, according to police captain Jahirul Hoque Bhuiyan.
Around a million Rohingya immigrants from neighboring Myanmar have been relocated to health, according to Bhuiyan.
The northern Sylhet department, where major government official Abu Ahmed Siddique claimed more than 1.3 million people were flooded, experienced the worst inundation.
According to Abu Ahmed Siddique, the government’s representative for the Sylhet place,” Their villages, streets, and most of their houses have been inundated by flood ocean.”
Kamrul Hasan, the minister of Bangladesh’s disaster management department, said that river had swelled after rains inland in India.
The Himalayan streams of the Ganges and Brahmaputra gently wind toward the sea after passing through India, making up the majority of low-ly Bangladesh.
Hasan told Agency that lots of homes had been set up around Sylhet for those who were evicted from their homes by flood waters.