Floods wreaked more havoc in India’s northeast and neighbouring Bangladesh’s eastern region, raising this week’s total death toll to 30, officials and media reports said Friday.
Volunteers use a boat to help rescue people on a flooded street following heavy rains in Mohipal, Feni, a coastal district in southeast Bangladesh, Friday, Aug. 23, 2024.
A number of charity groups have called for help, with a student group collecting dry food, cash, water and medicines at Dhaka University in the nation’s capital. New breaches on a flood protection embankment in the Gomti River in the eastern district of Cumilla inundated about 100 low-lying villages from Thursday midnight, Dhaka-based The Business Standard newspaper reported Friday. Other districts including Noakhali, Feni and Chattogram were also hard hit.
In Bangladesh, rumours spread online that the flooding was caused by India opening the Dumbur dam in Tripura, causing a number of anti-India protests. India’s External Affairs Ministry denied the connection, pointing out that the dam is far from the border and that heavy rains had caused major flooding over a wide area in both countries.
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