About 300,000 Bangladeshi citizens displaced due to floods caused by heavy rains are taking shelter in emergency shelters, disaster management officials said on Saturday.
At least 42 people have died in Bangladesh and India since the beginning of this week due to heavy monsoon rains, according to sources.
Lufton Nahar, a resident of the worst-hit district near the border with India’s Tripura state, who had to stay in shelters as his house was completely flooded, said from the relief shelter in Feni.
In Bangladesh, which is surrounded by hundreds of rivers, recent floods are affecting people’s lives.
Due to the floods, the highways and railways between the capital Dhaka and the main port city and Chittagong have been damaged, making it difficult to reach the flood-affected districts and commercial activities have also been hampered.
The worst-affected area by the floods is Cox’s Bazar, home to around one million Rohingya refugees from neighboring Myanmar.
According to Mohammad Kamrul, Secretary of the Ministry of Disaster Management, 18 more people died due to floods in Bangladesh.
He said that the lives of 450,000 people have been affected due to the floods and 285,000 of them are living in emergency shelters.