DHAKA, Aug 11 (NNN-BSS) – Floods, triggered by heavy seasonal rains and onrush of water from hills, have claimed nearly 200 lives in Bangladesh since June 30.
According to the daily flood report of the country’s Health Emergency Operation Centre and Control Room, the floods have killed 188 people in 33 (out of 64) districts.
Most victims have drowned, but some died of snake bites and lightning strikes in the flood-hit areas, showed the report.
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, at least 5.45 million people have been affected by the floods while thousands of families were forced to flee their home.
The latest government report, however, said, the situation is now improving in most of the districts, with water levels in many rivers receding.
Millions of people in Bangladesh, criss-crossed by hundreds of rivers, suffer from flooding, as the low-lying country experiences seasonal floods every year, during the June-Sept monsoon, when rivers that feed into the Bay of Bengal burst their banks.– NNN-BSS