(22 Aug 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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Habiganj, Bangladesh – 22 August 2024
1. Various of floodwater streaming through village after dam broke,
2. Man trying to save home
3. Close of floodwater streaming
4. SOUNDBITE (Bangla) No name given, villager:
“We are facing severe damages. Fish in the ponds were washed out in the floodwater. Many houses were broken, all roads are damaged.”
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Noakhali, Bangladesh – 22 August 2024
5. Various of people walking through floodwater on road
6. Various of people and rescuers
7. SOUNDBITE (Bangla) No name given, villager:
“Women can’t cook anything, what will we do now? Where will we go? Many are leaving their homes. The situation is grave here.”
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Chattogram, Bangladesh – 22 August 2024
8. Various of women treading through flooded road
9. Man pulling rickshaw through floodwater
10. Man arranging his belongings in flooded home
11. Family sitting on bed of flooded home
12. Man moving wood boards in flooded home
STORYLINE:
Floodwaters have stranded hundreds of thousands of people in India’s northeast and neighbouring Bangladesh’s eastern region, causing at least 15 deaths as rescuers struggled to reach those who needed help, officials and media reports said Thursday.
At least 11 people were killed and thousands displaced from homes as floods and mudslides have ravaged India’s northeastern Tripura state, bordering Bangladesh, since Wednesday.
Another four were killed in Bangladesh as upstream India and downstream Bangladesh share common rivers along their border.
In Bangladesh, a pregnant woman died after she fell into raging waters at Akhaura in Brahmanbaria district, Bengali-language Kal Bela newspaper reported. Three other people died from drowning and electrocution, it said.
The rains and the rising waters from upstream Tripura state devastated many areas in eastern Bangladesh.
Many in the worst-hit districts such as Cumilla, Feni and Noakhali called for rescue as power was cut and road links were disconnected. Travel and communication were severed between the capital, Dhaka, and the southeastern port city of Chattogram as parts of a major highway were under water.
The Bangladesh Flood Forecasting and Warning centre said Thursday that the water levels in many rivers in the delta nation’s eastern, northeastern and southeastern regions were still increasing.
About a dozen volunteers who rushed to the scene with boats and speedboats in the region told The Associated Press by phone that they were struggling to reach many of the affected people as they failed to communicate with them because the victims’ mobile numbers could not be reached. Many areas have no electricity, the government said.
“Women can’t cook anything, what will we do now? Where will we go? Many are leaving their homes. The situation is grave here,” said a Bangladeshi villager in Noakhali.
The military and other authorities have started rescue operation in the region, the authorities said.
While the both neighbours have been affected in the flood, many Bangladeshis blamed India for the flash floods, saying that India opened a river dam in Tripura, causing sudden floods in Bangladesh. India’s Ministry of External Affairs denied that in a statement.
Monsoon rains in South Asian nations India and Bangladesh typically begin in June. India and Bangladesh share 54 common rivers that flow from the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal. The countries have contention over the sharing of waters of the common rivers.
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