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The 1998 Bangladesh flood occurred during the severe monsoon season, which began in July and continued until September. Heavy rainfall in the upstream catchment areas of the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Meghna River caused water levels in these rivers to rise rapidly, resulting in widespread flooding across the country. It is considered one of the ...
The 2004 flood was very similar to the 1988 and 1998 floods with two thirds of the country under water. In early October 2005, dozens of villages were inundated when rain caused the rivers of northwestern Bangladesh to burst their banks.The floods that hit Bangladesh in 2007 affected 252 villages in 40 districts causing millions of people ...
From July to September 1998, Bangladesh suffered extensive flooding. Over 75% of the total area of the country was flooded, including half of Dhaka. [3] It was similar to the catastrophic flood of 1988, in terms of the extent of the flooding.
Entire coast of Bangladesh (then called East Pakistan) Cyclone 1991 Bangladesh Cyclone: Chittagong: 138,866: 1991: A cyclone hit the coastal islands and chars near Patuakhali, Barisal, Noakhali and Chittagong. Maximum wind speed reached 110 km/h. The storm surge was 1.9 metres. Industrial disaster 2013 Rana Plaza collapse: Dhaka: 1,134 [1] 24 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Districts of Bangladesh affected by flooding between 3 July and 15 August 2007 (marked in blue). On 1 August, there was flooding on the Padma and Brahmaputra rivers. [7] By 3 August, the main highway connecting Dhaka to the rest of the country was impassable, [2] many districts were flood-affected [4] and 500,000 people had been marooned. [7]
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 ...