INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Heavy rains have caused widespread flooding in parts of Bangladesh and India, leaving millions stranded and at least 57 dead, officials
Many parts of Bangladesh and neighbouring regions in India are prone to flooding, and experts say climate change is increasing the
likelihood of extreme weather events around the world.Dozens of people were killed in India during the week in days of flooding, landslides
and thunderstorms, according to local disaster management authorities.A woman cooks outside her home in a flooded corridor of Sylhet,
Bangladesh, after heavy rains
Photograph: Mamun Hossain/AFP/Getty ImagesIn Assam state, which borders Bangladesh, at least 14 people died in landslides and floods.Assam
authorities said on Saturday that more than 850,000 people in about 3,200 villages had been affected by the floods, triggered by torrential
rains that submerged swathes 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 swathes of land remain submerged in most districts.West of Assam, at least 33 people were killed
in Bihar state in thunderstorms on Thursday.An inundated house beside the banks of the overflown Surma River in Sylhet
Photograph: Mamun Hossain/AFP/Getty ImagesMore 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
In Zakiganj, Bangladesh, people were seen fishing on submerged roads and some residents took their cattle to flood shelters.Bus driver
residential area of Sylhet, where about 50,000 families have been without power for days
another official said about 50,000 families had been without power for days.Hossain, the chief administrator, said the flooding was driven
by both rains and the onrush of water from across the border in Assam.But officials said the broken embankment on the border at Zakiganj
could only be fixed once the water level dropped.
This article first appeared/also appeared in theguardian.comnbsp;
