SUNAMGANJ, Bangladesh — North-east Bangladesh’s worst floods in nearly 20 years began receding on Sunday, but rescue workers were struggling to help millions marooned by extreme weather across the region that has killed around 60 people. Floods are a regular menace to millions of people in low-lying Bangladesh and neighboring northeast India, but many experts say that climate change is increasing the frequency, ferocity and unpredictability. “It is one of the worst floods in the region,” he told AFP. At one point everyone started to snatch relief goods when police dispersed the crowd,” local police chief Sukanto Chakrobarti told AFP. In the north-eastern state of Assam, authorities said on Sunday that the death toll from the floods had reached 18.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer May 22, 2022 21:19 UTC