BANGLADESH: Hundreds in Bangladesh live in makeshift tents after rains inundate their homes

Many people in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka are forced to evacuate their houes and makeshift roadside shacks after three days of extensive flooding caused by monsoon rains. Hundreds of people have been forced out of their homes after three days of heavy monsoon rain and are living in makeshift roadside houses in Dhaka. "For the last seven days there was continuos rain which flooded our homes. Now we don't have any jobs we have taken shelter on this embankment and we are now helpless," said Sobahan Mollah. Nearly 130 people died in the port city of Chittagong and five million people across the country were either marooned or threatened by flooding in early June. In July, another 15 died and half a million were stranded in their homes by three days of relentless monsoon rains. Bangladesh's monsoon season runs until mid-September. Two-thirds of the low-lying country is regularly flooded during the monsoon as rain-swollen rivers and streams flow into Bangladesh from the hills of bordering east India. Heavy rain for the last seven days flooded many residential areas of the Dhaka city. Thousands of people are stranded their flooded houses and many have taken shelter in the city's embankments. ENDS.

ITN Source | July 27, 2007

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