In Bangladesh, monsoon rains kill dozens

Published on: 06/18/2022 – 09:35 Monsoon rains that battered Bangladesh have killed at least 25 people and more than four million people are stranded as a result of flooding, police said on Saturday . Deadly rains in Bangladesh. At least 25 people have died and four million people are stranded following flooding caused by monsoon rains, police said on Saturday (June 18th). Accompanying lightning has killed 21 people since Friday, while four others have died in landslides, according to the same source. Floods regularly threaten millions of people in low-lying Bangladesh. But, experts say, climate change is increasing their frequency, severity and suddenness. Most of the northeast of the country is under water and troops have been deployed to evacuate residents who find themselves isolated. have been turned into emergency shelters to accommodate the inhabitants of the villages which were flooded within hours following heavy flooding. “The whole village was under water on Friday morning and we are all stranded,” said Lokman, whose family lives in the village of Companyganj. “After waiting all day on the roof of our house, a neighbor rescued us with a makeshift boat. My mother said she had never seen such floods in her entire life.”Asma Akter, a another woman rescued from the rising waters, said her family could not eat for two days. “The water rose so fast that we couldn’t take any of our belongings,” she testified. South Asia since Friday afternoon, police officials said. Among them, three children aged 12 to 14 were beaten in the town of Nandail on Friday, local police chief Mizanur Rahman said. Four more people were killed in landslides in the port city of Chittagong, police inspector Nurul Islam said. On the flood front, the situation worsened on Saturday morning after a temporary respite from rainfall on Friday after midday, said Mosharraf Hossain, chief administrator of the Sylhet region government. “The situation is bad. More than four million people have been stranded by the floods,” he said, adding that almost the entire region is without electricity. Floods forced Bangladesh’s third international airport, located in Sylhet, to close on Friday. According to the weather forecast, the floods will worsen over the next two days due to heavy rainfall expected in Bangladesh and northeastern India. barely the worst flooding it has seen in nearly two decades at the end of May. They killed at least ten people and affected four million people. With AFP