Residents are still cleaning up, she says. Menzel said when she went to bed on Tuesday night, she knew there would be heavy rain, but she had no idea it would be as bad as it was. In North Rhine-Westphalia, at least 43 people died. Rescuers rush to save hundreds trapped by flooding in Europe as death toll tops 125 A defence ministry spokesperson said the German military had deployed more than 850 troops as of Friday morning. Search and rescue efforts are continuing, as hundreds of people are still missing.
Hagen is in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, one of the states hardest hit by flooding that has ravaged parts of Germany and Belgium.Īt least 125 people have died. West of Assam, at least 33 people were killed in Bihar state in thunderstorms on Thursday.īihar, in common with other parts of northern India and Pakistan, has been suffering an intense heatwave, with temperatures reaching 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit).Anja Menzel says it was "horrifying" to watch her street in the German city of Hagen turn into a river Wednesday morning, as water from a creek overflowed and deposited debris over 48 hours.īut Menzel says her neighbourhood was lucky, because other parts of her country have been affected much more severely.
The state and national rescue forces, helped by the army, were working to rescue people from villages and distribute food, clean drinking water and other essentials, as well as to clear roads. In the north-eastern state of Assam, authorities said on Sunday that the death toll from the floods had reached 18.Īccording to the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA), almost 3,250 villages were partially or fully submerged.ĪSDMA officials said the situation had improved slightly but that it remained critical in some districts.Īccording to their estimate, more than 92,000 people were in relief camps. Over the border in India, around 50 people have been killed in days of flooding, landslides and thunderstorms, according to local disaster management authorities. "It is very risky for the people who are going out today," Islam told AFP. Mofizul Islam, a resident of Sylhet city where floodwaters were slowly subsiding, said that he fell off his motorbike after he hit a pothole hidden under the water on Sunday. "We are trying to send relief and have opened hundreds of shelters for the flood-hit people." But outer towns are still underwater," Rahman said. The inundation scenario in Sylhet city has improved.
"It is impossible to fix the embankment unless waterflow from India plunges.
Mozibur Rahman, head of Sylhet district, said that the embankment washed away along the Bangladesh-India border was yet to be repaired. At one point everyone started to snatch relief goods when police dispersed the crowd," local police chief Sukanto Chakrobarti told AFP.ĭozens dead, millions stranded as floods ravage Bangladesh & India - including regions still reeling under deadly heat "There were more flood-affected people than the estimated relief packs. Police said that a scuffle broke out in the rural town of Companyganj on Saturday as authorities stepped up relief operations for the roughly two million people hit. "It is one of the worst floods in the region," he told AFP.īut he said the situation would improve further in the next few days after heavy rains stopped. In the past week after heavy rains in India, floodwater breached a major embankment in Bangladesh's Sylhet region, affecting around two million people, swamping dozens of villages and killing at least 10.Īrifuzzman Bhuiyan, head of the state-run Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre, told AFP that the floods had hit some 70 percent of Sylhet district and about 60 percent of neighbouring Sunamganj. #PrayForSylhet #Rain #Bangladesh /ueqzhdlmbA 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.įloods 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 the frequency, ferocity and unpredictability.Ī bridge in #Sylhet collapsed in the flood waters.
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