DHAKA, July 28 (NNN-BSS) – Almost half of Bangladesh remained in the grip of floods, with scores of casualties reported.
According to the daily flood situation report of the country’s disaster response coordination centre, the floods have killed 119 people in 21 (out of 64) districts, since June 30.
Of the victims, 96 people died of drowning, 13 of snakebites, eight of lightning strikes and one of diarrhoea.
According to another daily disaster situation report, prepared by the country’s National Disaster Response Coordination Centre (NDRCC) under the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief, the floods have affected nearly five million people, displaced hundreds of thousands of families.
The report said 4,378,732 people were affected due to the floods, in 31 out of the country’s total 64 districts.
Floods caused widespread damage to habitation, crops, roads and highways across the country. Wide areas of land are underwater as major rivers overflowed since last week.
Officials said, the onrush of water from hills across the Indian borders has virtually worsened the situation in the country.
Bangladeshi State Minister for Disaster Management and Relief, Md Enamur Rahman, said, they rushed teams of disaster response forces to carry out the rescue, distribute relief materials and supervise centres where the flood-affected families have taken shelter.
Bangladeshi Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, asked officials to remain alert to tackle the floods, which come as a further blow, at a time when the country is feeling the severe pinch of the COVID-19 pandemic.– NNN-BSS
