About 550 people have died in India, Bangladesh and Nepal, and the IFRC has warned of a humanitarian crisis
Rickshaw pullers make their way through a water-logged street after a heavy downpour in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on July 21, 2020.More than 9.6 million people across South Asia have been affected by severe floods, with hundreds of thousands struggling to get food and medicine, officials and aid organizations said Wednesday.
The organization warned of a humanitarian crisis, saying that close to one third of Bangladesh has already been flooded, with more flooding expected in the coming weeks. It said that 2.8 million people have been affected, and that more than 1 million are isolated.In India, over 6.8 million people have been affected by the flooding, mainly in the northern states of Assam, West Bengal, Bihar and Meghalaya bordering Bangladesh, the IFRC said, citing official figures.
M.S. Manivannan, head of Assam’s Disaster Management Authority, said many rivers were still flowing above the danger level. In Bangladesh, experts say this year’s monsoon is going to last longer than usual because more waters are expected to rush in from upstream India, which shares 53 common rivers with downstream Bangladesh.
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