More than two million people have been affected by heavy rains that caused big rivers to burst their banks in Bangladesh this year, according to authorities who confirmed the death toll on Saturday.
The South Eastern region of 170 million people, crisscrossed by thousands of river, has seen more frequent storms in recent years.
Snowfall is becoming more unpredictable as a result of climate change, and ice are melting upstream in the Himalayan mountains.
Sabuj Rana, the police chief in the northern rural town, reported to AFP that two young boys were killed when a motorboat capsized in flood waters in Shahjadur.
” In the little vessel, there were nine individuals. Seven swam to health. The other two guys were swimming incompetent. They drowned”, he said.
Three other people were killed in two distinct electrocution incidents after their boats tangled up with life energy wires in flood water, according to Bishwadeb Roy, a police chief in Kurigram, according to Bishwadeb Roy, a chief of police in the city.
Another three people died in separate flood-related happenings all over the nation, according to authorities who spoke to AFP earlier this month.
The government claimed to have sent food and aid to troubled areas in the country’s northern region and that it has provided hundreds of shelters to people who have been displaced by the waters.
” Over two million people have been impacted by the storms. Seventeen of the country’s 64 regions have been affected”, Kamrul Hasan, the director of the country’s disaster control department, told AFP.
Hasan said the storm condition may increase in the northern over the coming days with the Brahmaputra, one of Bangladesh’s major waterways, flowing above risk levels in some areas.
Eight out of nine remote towns have been destroyed by flood waters in the worst-hit Kurigram area, according to local disaster and pleasure standard Abdul Hye.
” We live with storms around. However, this time, the ocean was extremely high. In three days, Brahmaputra rose by six to eight feet ( 2- 2.5 metres )”, Abdul Gafur, a native council in the area, told AFP.
More than 80 % of my neighborhood’s homes have been flooded by floodwaters. We are attempting to provide food, particularly rice and nutritious oil. But there is a consuming water issue”.
Bangladesh is in the middle of the yearly summer rain, which causes ordinary incidents and damage from flooding and landslides as well as 70 to 80 percentage of its annual precipitation.
Although the snowfall is difficult to predict and varies widely, experts claim that climate change is making the rain stronger and more unpredictable.
