Floods in Bangladesh have killed dozens of people and left millions trapped. The storms in Bangladesh has killed at least 41 people and caused disastrous floods that trapped millions of others.
According to the flood forecasting and warning centre in Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital, water levels in all major rivers across the country were rising. There are approximately 130 rivers in the country.
The flood situation is expected to worsen in the worst-affected Sunamganj and Sylhet districts in northeastern Bangladesh, as well as Lalmonirhat, Kurigram, Nilphamari, and Rangpur districts in northern Bangladesh, according to the centre.
Before this week’s rains, the Sylhet region was still recovering from its biggest floods in nearly two decades, which occurred late last month and killed at least ten people and affected four million more.
A pre-monsoon flash flood devastated Bangladesh’s northern and north-eastern areas last month, devastating crops and damaging homes and roads. The storm was sparked by a surge of water from upstream in India’s north-eastern provinces. Fresh rains swamped the same places again this week, just as the country was beginning to recover from the trauma.
Bangladesh, a low-lying country with 160 million people, is vulnerable to climate-related natural disasters such as floods and cyclones. According to the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, roughly 17% of Bangladesh’s population will need to relocate in the next decade or so if global warming continues at its current rate.
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