Millions affected and waiting for food supplies as collapsed transport and communication is making relief and rescue difficult.
New Delhi — At least 114 people have been killed by floods, lightning strikes and landslides in Bangladesh and northeastern India in the past week as heavy monsoon rains have flooded dozens of districts in the two countries. The deadly flooding, one of the worst to hit the region in several decades, comes nearly two years after similar floods
The deluge has brought down mobile phone towers and power lines and washed away roads and bridges, making relief and rescue work difficult.
“We have evacuated more than 300,000 people who were marooned”, said Mosharraf Hossain, a government official in the Sylhet region. “Many of them have lost their houses made of tin and bamboo.”
The death toll in the Indian northeastern state of Assam increased to 82, with 11 more deaths on Tuesday. Meanwhile, in Bangladesh, the number of deaths has risen to 32. At least 4.8 million people have been affected by the floods across the mountainous state of Assam’s 32 districts. Teams of military, federal and state disaster management authorities have evacuated more than 231,000 people from the low-lying areas and put them up in over 1,000 makeshift relief camps.
