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Cyclone Mocha destroyed 2,522 houses and damaged 10,469 others in May. [2] Three people died of indirect causes [3] and 12 others were injured. [4]Flooding in August killed 57 people, left several missing, displaced around 45,000 residents and affected 1.2 million others, as well as damaging over 2,700 shelters.
An estimated 200,000 people in Pakistan could be affected by the upcoming monsoon season, which is expected to bring heavier rains than usual, a top U.N. official warned on Thursday. The United ...
Authorities in Bangladesh are bracing for the spread of waterborne diseases and racing to get drinking water to people after devastating floods last week that left at least 54 people dead and ...
From January to October 2022, excessive rainfall and widespread monsoon flooding occurred in the South Asian countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. It has become the region's deadliest floods since 2020 , with over 4,700 people dead.
Bangladesh: On 30 August 2022, Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina, announced that her country will provide aid to flood victims in the Balochistan province of Pakistan. [132] Bangladesh's Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief has allocated ৳14 million (US$140,000) to provide relief items to Pakistan including 10 tonnes of biscuit ...
The death toll from Bangladesh's outbreak in 2023 is 1,476 as of Nov. 12, with 291,832 infected, official data showed. Hospitals have struggled to cope with the rising number of patients in the ...
Bangladesh, being situated on the Brahmaputra River Delta (also known as the Ganges Delta) is a land of many rivers, and as a result, is very prone to flooding. Due to being part of such a basin and being less than 5 meters above mean sea level, Bangladesh faces the cumulative effects of floods due to water flashing from nearby hills, the accumulation of the inflow of water from upstream ...
As of 26 September 2019; the monsoon floods affected 13 districts, killing at least 2 people, injuring 6 others, and about 116,000 people were affected. [16] One casualty was reported in the Galle District and the other one was reported in Kolonnawa , where a teenager drowned in the flood water. [ 17 ]