Government opens hundreds of shelters for displaced people as heavy rains cause rivers to burst their banks
this week has risen to eight, leaving more than two million affected after heavy rains caused major rivers to burst their banks, officials confirmed.
Two teenage boys were killed when a boat capsized in flood waters in Shahjadur, the northern rural town’s police chief Sabuj Rana said. “More than two million people have been affected by the floods. Seventeen of the country’s 64 districts have been affected,” Kamrul Hasan, the secretary of the country’s disaster management ministry, said.
“We live with floods here. But this year the water was very high. In three days, Brahmaputra rose by six to eight feet ,” Abdul Gafur, a local councillor in the district, said.
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