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Nearly 300,000 Bangladeshis are taking refuge in emergency shelters from floods that inundated vast areas of the country, disaster officials
said.The floods were triggered by heavy monsoon rains and have killed at least 42 people in Bangladesh and India since the start of the
week, many in landslides.Lufton Nahar, 60, speaking from a relief shelter in Feni, one of the worst-hit districts near the border with
Water is flowing above our roof
My brother brought us here by boat
floods in recent decades.Monsoon rains cause widespread destruction every year but the climate crisis is shifting weather patterns and
increasing the number of extreme weather events.Highways and railway lines were damaged between the capital, Dhaka, and the main port city
of Chattogram, making access to badly flooded districts difficult and disrupting businesses.The flooding happened weeks after a student-led
refugees from neighbouring Myanmar.Sarat Kumar Das, a disaster agency official in the Indian state of Tripura, told Agence-France Presse
that 24 people had been killed on the Indian side of the border since Monday.Another 18 had been killed in Bangladesh, according to the
million people in total had been affected.When the floods hit, Bangladesh was recovering from weeks of civil unrest that culminated in the
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interim government led by the Nobel peace prize laureate Muhammad Yunus still finding its feet, ordinary Bangladeshis have been crowdfunding
relief efforts, organised by the same students who led the protests that led to the ousting of Hasina, who remains in India after fleeing
Dhaka.Crowds visited Dhaka University on Friday to offer cash donations as students loaded rice sacks and crates of bottled water on to
vehicles for areas affected by the deluge.Much of Bangladesh is made up of deltas where the great Himalayan rivers, the Ganges and the
Brahmaputra, wind towards the sea after coursing through India
Several tributaries of the two transnational rivers were still overflowing/ However, forecasts showed rain was likely to ease in the coming
This article first appeared/also appeared in theguardian.com
