Food, water concerns in northern Bangladesh as floods continue
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- 21 Jun 2022
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Authorities in Bangladesh are struggling to ferry drinking water and dry food to flood shelters across the country’s vast northern and northeastern regions as floods continued to wreak havoc, officials and local media said on Monday.
More than a dozen people died across the country since the monsoon began last week, authorities said. The government called in soldiers Friday to help evacuate people.
Ekattor TV station said millions remained without electricity.
Enamur Rahman, junior minister for disaster and relief, said that up to 100,000 people have been evacuated in the worst-hit Sunamganj and Sylhet districts, and about 4 million people have been marooned in the area, the United News of Bangladesh agency said.
The latest statement Sunday from the country’s Flood Forecasting and Warning Center in the nation’s capital, Dhaka, said that flooding in the northeastern districts of Sunamganj and Sylhet could worsen further in the next 24 hours. It said the Teesta, a major river in northern Bangladesh, may flow above danger. The situation could also deteriorate in the country’s northern districts of Lalmonirhat, Kurigram, Nilphamari, Rangpur, Gaibandha, Bogra, Jamalpur and Sirajganj, it said.
Officials said water has started receding already from the northeastern region but it is posing a threat to the country’s central region, the pathway for floodwaters to reach the Bay of Bengal in the south. Read More...
