59 dead, millions stranded as floods hit Bangladesh, India

19/6/2022 6:07

        Monsoon storms in Bangladesh and India have killed at least 59 people and unleashed devastating floods that left millions of others stranded, officials said on Saturday (Jun 18).
        
        Floods are a regular menace to millions of people in low-lying Bangladesh, but experts say climate change is increasing their frequency, ferocity and unpredictability.
        
        Relentless downpours over the past week have inundated vast stretches of Bangladesh's north-east, with troops deployed to evacuate households cut off from neighbouring communities.
        
        Schools have been turned into relief shelters to house entire villages inundated in a matter of hours by rivers that suddenly burst their banks.