Due to river rein and flat terrain geology, flood is a yearly disaster in Bangladesh. The few catastrophic floods the country suffered after its independence, the present one is one of the severe ones. Even the areas including the outskirts of Dhaka, which never had flooding got inundated this time. The flood waters washed away villages, towns, cattle and cultivable fields. Two thirds of the country is now under water.

Communication system is destroyed and flood affected starving people have taken refuge on high roads, embankments, schools and in various shelters. There is an extreme scarcity of drinking water and for the lack of pure drinking water lot of people especially children die. People are passing their days in boundless misery for the last three weeks. They look forward to some aid while waiting in their shelters.

20 districts including Tangail, Sirajganj, Shunamganj, Manikganj, Kurigram and Jamalpur are the worst hits in this year’s flood.  Various epidemics and waterborne diseases including cholera and diarrhea will spread soonest the flood water recedes. The post flood rehabilitation; lack of food, repairing affected infrastructures will bring yet another challenge.


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Script & Multimedia: Shahjahan Siraj
Voiceover: J. Alam
Subtitle: Arham Chowdhury
Signer: Alta and Surjo
Cooperation: Kamrul Hasan
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