Typhoons in Bangladesh and India have killed at least 59 people and calmed the floods that left millions more homeless, officials said on Saturday. frequency, violence and unpredictability. Heavy rains this week have hit many areas in northeastern Bangladesh, with troops deployed to evacuate homes far from neighboring communities.Schools have been turned into shelters to accommodate all the flooded valleys within a few hours and the rivers have already flooded the shore. “After waiting all day on the roof of our house, a neighbor rescued us by a temporary boat. My mother said she had never seen such a flood in her entire life,” added the 23-year-old. AsmaAkter, another woman rescued from rising water, said her family had not eaten for two days.
“The water was rising so fast we could not bring our belongings,” he said. “How can you cook but everything is under water?” Lightning strikes have killed at least 21 people across South Asia since Friday afternoon, police told. Among them were three children between the ages of 12 and 14. It was struck by lightning on Friday in the rural town of Nandail, said local police chief Mizanur Rahman.
Four other people were killed when a landslide hit their mountain homes in the port city of Chittagong, police inspector Nurul Islam told. At least 16 people have been killed since Thursday in a remote area of Meghalaya, provincial minister Conrad Sangma wrote on Twitter, following the landslide. and the raging rivers that flooded the roads. Near Assam, more than 2.6 million people were hit by floods after five days of continuous rain, according to the state disaster relief center.Eighteen people have died in floods or landslides since Thursday, the organization reported, and at least 7,500 people were rescued on Saturday afternoon. and relief ”for those affected by the flood.
The situation is going worst in Bangladesh and Assam
Extreme levels of flood danger were announced in Bangladesh on Saturday morning after a series of torrential rains the following afternoon, Sylhet regional government chief Mosharraf Hossain told. “The situation is dire. More than four million people are trapped in the floods,” Hossain said. he added that almost the entire region had no electricity. The floods forced the third largest Bangladeshi airport in Sylhet to close on Friday.
Not far from the regional capital, residents dived into waist-deep water on roadside lanes. Forecasters say the floods will be worse in the next two days with heavy rains in Bangladesh and upstream in northeastern India. Prior to this week’s rains, the Sylhet region was still recovering from the worst floods in almost two decades late last month, killing at least 10 people and injuring another four million.
The flooding situation in Assam worsened on Friday 18 June as nine other people, including two children, lost their lives, bringing the death toll from floods and landslides to 55, the report said.The deaths were reported in Hojai, Nalbari, Bajali, Dhubri, Kamrup, Kokrajhar, and Sonitpurdistricts. Two people were reported missing in the Hojai and Sonitpurdistricts.A total of 18.94 lakh people remained affected in 28 states, according to a report released by the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA).
Landslides were reported in Dima Hasao, Goalpara, Hojai, Kamrup and Kamrup (Metropolitan) and Morigaon.Union Minister SarbanandaSonowal summoned Assam Prime Minister HimantaBiswaSarma to discuss the situation.Several rivers including Brahmaputra, Kopili, Paladadiya, Jia-Bharali, Manas and Beki flowed above the level of danger.
Workers at a dam under construction of less than 2,000 MW Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Power Project were asked to leave as the Subansiri River flowed above the level of danger due to heavy rains in the neighboring Arunachal Pradesh area which hit several villages in Dhemaji and Lakhimpur districts, the official said. it said.A warning was sounded in the KarbiAnglong, Morigaon and Nagaon districts after the opening of four sluice gates at NEEPCO’s KarbiLangpi Hydro Electric Project in Langdong in the Dima Hasao region.
Floods were reported in urban areas in Kamrup Metropolitan, Bajali, Barpeta, Darrang, Goalpara, Morigaon, Kokrajhar, Nalbari and Udalguri, the ASDMA reported.Guwahati was hit hard by water logging in several parts of the city for the fourth day in a row, with areas such as Anil Nagar, Nabin Nagar, Zoo Road, Six Mile, Noonmati, Bhootnath, Maligaon, Bamunimaidam, Rajgarh Link Road, Hatigaon. , Rukimingaon, Fatasil and Gotanagar already severely affected.
Road connections were affected in several districts with 234 roads and 16 bridges damaged, while landslides on the neighboring NH 6 Meghalaya disrupted traffic flow between Guwahati, Shillong, Silchar and Agartala.Sonitpur district authorities have closed NH 15, linking Lakhimpur, Dhemaji and Itanagar and Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh, with heavy vehicles and the situation is being monitored, an official said.The second wave of floods this year affected 96 revenue circuits and 2,930 villages while 1,06,677 people took refuge in 363 relief camps.
