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At the time of the floods, a La Nina event was active in the Pacific meaning India and Bangladesh would receive heavier monsoon showers. Beginning in May 2022, deadly floods hit northeastern India and Bangladesh. Over 9 million people in both countries have been affected, and around 150 have been killed.[1][2]
Floods in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa killed eight people in January, [2] however from June 2022, floods affected most of Pakistan, affecting around 33 million people, or 12% of the country's population. [3] Over two million houses were damaged or destroyed by flooding, [ 4 ] and over $40 billion USD worth of damage has been caused.
The 2022 Silchar Floods were floods that occurred in the state of Assam, India beginning 19 June 2022 as a part of 2022 Assam–Bangladesh floods due to a breach of dyke of the Barak River at Bethkundi. The flooding affected 5.4 million people across 32 districts and caused the deaths of over 200 [2] people across the affected districts.
Floodwaters have stranded hundreds of thousands of people in India’s northeast and neighboring Bangladesh’s eastern region, causing at least 15 deaths as rescuers struggled to reach those who ...
In India's Tripura state, eight more people died in the last 24 hours, raising the death toll to 19 since Monday, said a state disaster man As more floods batter Bangladesh and India, death toll ...
Rescuers are scrambling to evacuate flooded communities after heavy rains inundated parts of Bangladesh and northeast India, killing at least 36 people and causing rivers on both sides of the ...
In India, a total of 2,038 people were killed, 1,584 others were injured and 101 others were left missing due to flooding-related incidents between 1 April and 17 August. During this period, there were 518 deaths in Bihar , 330 more in Himachal Pradesh , 165 in Gujarat , 138 in Madhya Pradesh , 107 deaths each in Karnataka and Maharashtra , 90 ...
The Bangladeshi authorities evacuated thousands of people to shelters as the cyclone moved northward from the Bay of Bengal and approached Bangladesh's extensive coastline. The government also requested fishing boats to return from the deep sea and remain anchored in the Bay of Bengal, closed three airports, and stopped all river transportation ...