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Hundreds of Thousands Homeless After Floods

» Published: 24 August 2024

Hundreds of Thousands Homeless After Floods
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Nearly 300,000 people are forced to seek shelter in emergency camps after floods have affected large parts of Bangladesh, according to rescue personnel.

The floods have been caused by the heavy monsoon rains that have killed at least 42 people in Bangladesh and India since the beginning of the week. Most of these have died in landslides.

My house is completely flooded, says Lufton Nahar, who now lives in an emergency camp in the city of Feni in the southeast, one of the areas hardest hit.

The water reaches all the way over our roof. My brother took us here in a boat, otherwise we would have died.

285,000 people have been forced to leave their homes, and a total of 4.5 million have been affected by the floods.

Hundreds of rivers flow through the country and floods are common, but the number of extreme weather events has increased in recent years.

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