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Heavy rain and an onrush of water from upstream Indian hills triggered flooding, affecting 5 million people in Sylhet regionIn Eucharist, ‘we’re one with God, one with each other,’ says Catholic musician Matt MaherChildren use a raft made from banana trees to travel in a village in Moulvibazar district of northeast Bangladesh on June 20.
Habiganj, a part of Bangladesh’s Haor Basin covering six districts in the northeast, is among four districts where heavy rain and an onrush of floodwater from upstream Flooding in the Haor Basin has been an annual affair for years. However, extreme and long-lasting flooding in recent years has been blamed on climate change impacts as well as encroachment, pollution and the silting of vital rivers in the region.
The flooding began on June 14 following record rainfall in various places in the hilly Indian state of Meghalaya. The state’s wettest village Mawsynram received 640 millimeters of rain on June 15, and 780 millimeters three days later, according to the Indian Meteorological Department.The floodwater coming down from the Indian hills washed away everything in its path, including houses, giant trees, cattle, fish enclosures and standing crops.
The divisional fisheries office estimated that 23,813 fish farms were swept away in the flooding that lasted for 11 days. AKM Saiful Islam, who teaches flood and water management at the state-run Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, said that climate change impacts were indeed intensifying flash floods.
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