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At least 52 people have died in landslides, lightning and Flash floods across India and Bangladesh in the past week, according to officials from both countries.
Northeast India and northern Bangladesh have been particularly badly hit by severe weather, which has prompted the region’s worst floods in years and cut off some towns.
According to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, 17 people died due to lightning in India’s northeastern state of Bihar on Saturday.
A senior official of Meghalaya’s State Disaster Management Authority, R. According to Lyngdoh, in Meghalaya state, which borders Bangladesh to the south, at least 24 people have died and three are missing since June 9.
Lyngdoh said that more than 633,000 people have been affected by the floods and the state’s disaster management authority will conduct essential commodities drops for some districts cut off by road.
According to the State Disaster Management Authority, at least nine people have died and eight have gone missing in the neighboring state of Assam till Sunday evening.
In Bangladesh, floods have inundated roads and highways and isolated the entire district from the rest of the country.
The country’s minister of state for disaster management, Enamur Rahman, told CNN on Sunday that at least two people had died in the floods. News agency reports suggest the toll is much higher, although Reuters reported 25 deaths over the weekend, citing local officials.
Rahman said the lack of telecom services has made it difficult to fully assess the extent of the damage, especially in the inaccessible districts of Sylhet and Sunamganj.
He said around 90% of Sunamganj was under water and was almost completely isolated from the rest of Bangladesh on Sunday.
News agency Bangladesh Sangbad Sangathan (BSS) reported on Saturday that nearly six million people have been displaced due to the floods.
Officials said that lakhs of people are being provided food and shelter in temporary relief camps.
“We were having trouble in establishing communication with some districts, but now we are in touch with all. Our main issue right now is paucity of drinking water and food, but we are making arrangements for (some) and trying to transport it using helicopters,” said Muhammad Mosharrof Hussain, a senior officer in Bangladesh’s Sylhet division. Said, which is one of the worst affected areas. ,
Hussain said about 300,000 people are in the shelter as of Monday.