At least four million people have been affected by the worst floods in Bangladesh s northeast for nearly two decades, the United Nations said Monday. Heavy rains and a rush of water from upstream in India s northeast swelled rivers in Bangladesh, with two main border rivers, the Surma and Kushiara, breaching a major embankment and inundating hundreds of villages. “It is one of the worst floods in the history of the country s northeast,” he said. In this disaster, as in most others, children are the most vulnerable,” said Sheldon Yett, UNICEF Representative to Bangladesh. Floods are a regular menace to millions of people in low-lying Bangladesh and neighbouring northeast India, but many experts say that climate change is increasing their frequency, ferocity and unpredictability.

Source: The Nation May 23, 2022 20:23 UTC