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full screen Heavy floods have hit Bangladesh. Image from the city of Feni. Photo: AP/TT
Nearly 300,000 people are being forced to seek shelter in emergency camps after floods hit large parts of Bangladesh, rescue workers say.
The floods have been caused by the heavy monsoon rains that have killed at least 42 people in Bangladesh and India since the beginning of the week. Most of these have perished in landslides.
– My house is completely flooded, says Lufton Nahar who now lives in an emergency camp in the town of Feni in the southeast, one of the hardest hit areas.
– The water reaches right over our roof. My brother brought us here in a boat, otherwise we would have died.
285,000 people have been forced to leave their homes, and a total of 4.5 million have been affected by the floods.
Hundreds of rivers flow through the country and floods are common, but the number of extreme weather events has increased in recent years.