Chicago – September 01, 2024
Rohingya refugees organized on Saturday emergency aid for their host community in Bangladesh, as the worst floods in three decades swept the country’s eastern regions.
Heavy monsoon rainfall, coupled with a surge of water from the neighboring Indian state of Tripura, resulted in severe floods in southeastern and northeastern Bangladesh since Aug. 20.
The flash flooding has hit 11 districts — Feni, Cumilla, Chattogram, Khagrachari, Noakhali, Moulvibazar, Habiganj, Brahmanbaria, Sylhet, Lakshmipur, and Cox’s Bazar — killing
at least 59 people and affecting 5.5 million.
More than 1 million families have been cut off from the rest of the country by floodwaters and overflowing rivers and are urgently in need of food, drinking water, and medicines.