A minimum of 13 public in Bangladesh were killed and four.5 million suffering from floods brought on by way of fat rains, the crisis control and sleep ministry stated Friday.
The South Asian community of 170 million public, crisscrossed by way of loads of rivers, has noticeable customery floods in contemporary a long time.
It is one of the international locations maximum prone to failures and circumstance trade, in keeping with the World State Possibility Index.
A bulletin from the crisis ministry on Friday stated: “4.5 million people have been affected, and 13 people have died across the country”.
Just about 190,000 others had been taken to crisis sleep shelters, in keeping with the bulletin.
Altogether, 11 of the rustic’s 64 districts had been suffering from the overspill, the bulletin added.
Feni, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) northwest of the primary port town of Chittagong, was once worst-hit.
“It’s a catastrophic situation here,” rescue volunteer Zahed Hossain Bhuiya, 35, informed AFP in Feni. “We are trying to rescue as many people as we can.”
AFP
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