Floods inside India, Bangladesh depart from millions homeless, 18 dead

Floods inside India, Bangladesh depart from millions homeless, 18 dead

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Army troops were called inside to rescue thousands of people stranded by massive floods that have ravaged northeastern India with every one other accompanied by Bangladesh, leaving millions of homes underwater with every one other accompanied by severing transport links, authorities said Saturday.

In India's Assam state, at least nine people were killed inside the floods with every one other accompanied by 2 million saw their homes submerged, according to the condition catastrophe management agency. Lightning strikes inside parts of neighboring Bangladesh have left-hand at least nine deceased since Friday.

Both countries have asked their militaries for assist while additional flooding looms accompanied by rains expected to carry on accompanied by over the weekend.

In Sylhet inside northeastern Bangladesh, on the banks of the Surma River, children sat on a window of an inundated house while other family members gathered on a couch inside their flooded home, some wondering how to build it into and not here of the ordeal.

"How tin we eat (in this condition)?" said Anjuman Ara Begum, standing inside the aqua inside her kitchen. "We are living on muri (puffed rice) with every one other accompanied by chira (flattened rice) with every one other accompanied by other things specified by people. What else tin we do? We can't cook."

Flights at Osmani International Airport inside Sylhet were suspended for trio days while floodwaters almost reached the runway, according to Hafiz Ahmed, the airfield manager. The Sylhet Sunamganj main highway too was flooded nevertheless motorbikes were moving along.

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Water levels inside all greatest rivers across the country were rising, according to the flood forecasting with every one other accompanied by warning center inside Dhaka, the capital. The country has concerning 130 rivers.

The center said the flood circumstances is probable to deteriorate inside the worst-hit Sunamganj with every one other accompanied by Sylhet districts inside the northeastern neighbourhood while well while inside Lalmonirhat, Kurigram, Nilphamari with every one other accompanied by Rangpur districts inside northern Bangladesh.

The Brahmaputra, one of Asia's largest rivers, breached its mire embankments, inundating 3,000 villages with every one other accompanied by croplands inside 28 of Assam's 33 districts across the border inside India.

"We expect average to heavy rainfall inside some parts of Assam till Sunday. The volume of rainfall has been unprecedented," said Sanjay O'Neil, an official at the meteorological stopping place inside Gauhati, Assam's capital.

Several train services were canceled inside India amid the incessant downpour over the past five days. In southern Assam's Haflong town, the railway stopping place was underwater with every one other accompanied by flooded rivers deposited mire with every one other accompanied by silt down the objection strongly at tracks.

India's armed force has been mobilized to assist catastrophe response agencies inside rescuing stranded people with every one other accompanied by providing food with every one other accompanied by other essentials. Soldiers used speedboats with every one other accompanied by inflatable rafts to navigate into and not here of submerged areas.

Last month, a pre-monsoon flash flood, triggered by a hurry of aqua from upstream inside India's northeastern states, hit Bangladesh's northern with every one other accompanied by northeastern regions, destroying crops with every one other accompanied by damaging homes with every one other accompanied by roads. The country was fair starting to recuperate when fresh rains flooded the same areas on one occasion additional this week.

Bangladesh, a nation of 160 million people, is low-lying with every one other accompanied by faces threats from natural disasters such while floods with every one other accompanied by cyclones, made worse by climate change. According to the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, concerning 17% of people inside Bangladesh would need to exist relocated over the following decade or so if worldwide warming persists at the inside attendance rate.

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Hussain reported from Gauhati, India.

Floods inside India, Bangladesh depart from millions homeless, 18 dead