KABUL (BNA) Heavy rainfall have caused huge flooding in parts of Bangladesh and India, leaving millions stranded and at least 57 dead, reported Media.
In Bangladesh, almost two million people have been marooned by the worst floods in the country’s northeast for nearly two decades while nearly one million people have been affected by the flooding.
Every extra degree of global warming increases the amount of water in the atmosphere by about 7 percent, with inevitable effects on rainfall.
At least 47 people have been killed in India this week in days of flooding, landslides, and thunderstorms, according to local disaster management authorities.
In Assam state, which borders Bangladesh, at least 14 people have died in landslides and floods
affected by the floods, triggered by torrential rains that submerged swaths of farmland and damaged thousands of homes.
Nearly 90,000 people have been moved to state-run relief shelters as water levels in rivers run high and large.
Many parts of Bangladesh and neighboring regions in India are prone to flooding, and experts say that climate change is increasing the likelihood of extreme weather events around the world.
retrieving bodies, carrying relief material, and rescuing stranded villagers who have been stuck without food and other necessities for days.”
The dozens of families that have been staying at a relief camp in Hojai said that they need more help from the government, Mittal said.
At least 33 people were killed in eastern Bihar state in thunderstorms on Thursday.
More than three dozen people were injured in the unseasonal weather events that damaged hundreds of hectares of standing crops and thousands of fruit trees.
Bihar has also suffered an intense heatwave this week, with temperatures reaching 40 degrees
Villagers make their way on a raft past homes in a flooded area after heavy rains in Nagaon district, Assam state, India.
In Bangladesh’s Zakiganj, people were seen fishing on submerged roads and some residents took their cattle to flood shelters.
Bus driver Shamim Ahmed, 50, told AFP, “My house is under waist-deep water. There is no drinking water, we are harvesting rainwater
Migrants say they are stranded with little support from the authorities in their home country or their adopted one.
More than three dozen people were injured in the unseasonal weather events that damaged hundreds of hectares of standing crops and thousands of fruit trees.
Lately, flash floods caused human losses across country Afghanistan, destroyed hundreds of acres of farmland, displaced thousands, and the government called for humanitarian aid for the affected families of floods.
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