According to the weather forecast, the floods will get even worse over the next two days.
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In Bangladesh, more than four million people are stranded following severe flooding. The monsoon rains that hit the country killed at least 25 people, police said on Saturday June 18.
Accompanying lightning has killed 21 people since Friday, while four others have died in landslides, according to the same source. Four other people were killed in landslides in the port city of Chittagong, the local police inspector told AFP.
According to the weather forecast, the floods will further worsen over the next two days due to heavy rainfall expected in Bangladesh and northeastern India.
Floods regularly threaten millions of people in this low-lying country. But, according to experts, climate change is increasing their frequency, severity and suddenness. Most of the northeast of the country is under water and troops have been deployed to evacuate residents who find themselves isolated.
Schools have been turned into emergency shelters to accommodate residents of villages that were flooded within hours following heavy flooding. “The whole village found itself under water on Friday morning and we all got stuck”said Lokman, a 23-year-old whose family lives in the village of Companyganj. “After waiting all day on the roof of our house, a neighbor rescued us with a makeshift boat. My mother said she had never seen such flooding in her entire life.”he added.
Floods forced Bangladesh’s third international airport, located in Sylhet, to close on Friday. Before this week’s rains, the region was just recovering from the worst flooding it had seen in nearly two decades at the end of May. They had killed at least ten people and affected four million people.