Nearly 300,000 Bangladeshis in emergency shelters after floods

Feni: According to disaster officials, over 300,000 people from Bangladesh were seeking safety in emergency shelters on Saturday as floods flooded a large portion of the low-lying South Asian nation.
At least 42 people have died in floods in Bangladesh and India since the beginning of the week, many of them in landslides that were caused by the torrential monsoon rains that set off the floods.

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Every year, the monsoon rains bring about considerable damage, but climate change is altering weather patterns and causing more intense weather events.
Between the capital Dhaka and the major port city of Chittagong, there were damaged highways and rail links that made it impossible to access severely flooded regions and disrupted economic operations.
Its government was overthrown by a student-led revolution only a few weeks before to the deluge.
Cox’s Bazar, a province in neighboring Myanmar that is home to almost a million Rohingya refugees, is one of the worst hit locations.
According to Tripura state disaster agency director Sarat Kumad Das, 24 people have died on the Indian side of the border since Monday, as reported by AFP.
Md Kamrul Hasan, secretary of the disaster management ministry, stated that another eighteen people have died in Bangladesh.

He claimed that 285,000 individuals were residing in emergency shelters and that 4.5 million people had been impacted overall.
After weeks of civic turmoil culminating in the overthrow of dictatorial former leader Sheikh Hasina on August 5, Bangladesh was recuperating when the floods struck.
Common Bangladeshis have been crowdsourcing humanitarian efforts while the Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus leads an interim administration that is still getting established.
The same students who spearheaded the demonstrations that forced Hasina’s resignation are behind them; she fled Dhaka and is now living in India.

On Friday, as students loaded rice sacks and cartons of bottled water onto trucks for places hit by the deluge, crowds flocked to Dhaka University to give financial donations.
A large portion of Bangladesh consists of deltas formed by the Ganges and Brahmaputra, two major Himalayan rivers, winding their way toward the sea after flowing through India.
The two international rivers’ tributaries were still overflowing in several places.
Forecasts indicated that the rain was probably going to lessen in the upcoming days.