Bangladesh flood emergency intensifies as nearly 300,000 people seek refuge in shelters after devastating floods hit various regio...
Representational imageNearly 300,000 Bangladeshis were taking refuge in emergency shelters Saturday from floods that inundated vast areas of the low-lying South Asian country, disaster officials said.
"Water is flowing above our roof. My brother brought us here by boat. If he hadn't, we would have died." Highways and rail lines were damaged between the capital Dhaka and the main port city of Chittagong, making access to badly flooded districts difficult and disrupting business activity.Among the worst affected areas is Cox's Bazar, a district home to around a million Rohingya refugees from neighbouring Myanmar.
"285,000 people are living in emergency shelters," he said, adding that 4.5 million people in total had been affected.When the floods hit, Bangladesh was recovering from weeks of civil unrest that culminated in the August 5 toppling of autocratic ex-leader Sheikh Hasina. Crowds visited Dhaka University on Friday to offer cash donations as students loaded rice sacks and crates of bottled water onto vehicles for areas affected by the deluge.
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