FENI, Undefined — Nearly 300,000 Bangladeshis were taking refuge in emergency shelters on Saturday from floods that inundated vast areas of the low-lying South Asian country, disaster officials said.
The floods, which were triggered by heavy monsoon rains, have killed at least 42 people in Bangladesh and India since the start of the week, many in landslides.'My house is completely inundated,' Lufton Nahar, 60, told Agence France-Presse from a relief shelter in Feni, one of the worst-hit districts near the border with India's northeastern Tripura state. 'Water is flowing above our roof. My brother brought us here by boat. If he hadn't, we would have died.
Among the worst-affected areas is Cox's Bazar, a district home to about a million Rohingya refugees from neighboring Myanmar.Tripura state disaster agency official Sarat Kumad Das told AFP that 24 people had been killed on the Indian side of the border since Monday.Another 18 had been killed in Bangladesh, said disaster management ministry secretary Md Kamrul Hasan.Some '285,000 people are living in emergency shelters,' he said, adding that 4.
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