Bangladesh (MNN) – Many eyes have turned to the United States as it begins the recovery process after being hit by two hurricanes. Meanwhile, Bangladesh is still being flooded by monsoon rains.
Forgotten rains, continued Flooding
“Middle of August, one day in particular, nearly the equivalent of a week’s worth of monsoon rain (so not just normal rain but monsoon rain) was dumped across parts of Bangladesh in just a couple of hours,” FMI’s Bruce Allen explains.
“It’s not just that there was this monsoon or like a hurricane for a week, but since June it has been raining. So, more than 51,000 people in Bangladesh have had to be relocated to emergency flood shelters.”
At least 145 people have died as a result of the rains reports The Guardian. Yet, despite the deaths, fewer people have died than in previous floods. For example, a great flood in 1988 killed nearly 2,400 people. The decline in deaths has been attributed to improved disaster risk reduction and education in the country.
Still, this doesn’t mean that Bangladesh isn’t hurting or that these monsoon rains and the flooding that follows aren’t causing pain.
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