Fresh floods hit Bangladesh and parts of northern India - 9 Sep 07
A month after heavier-than-usual monsoon rains brought record flooding to
the country, waters have still not subsided in many areas and thousands remain
homeless. With further heavy rain forecast this week, Bangladeshis were told
to brace themselves for potentially devastating new floods. More than 30, 000
people were evacuated from more vulnerable areas. The floods so far have
led to the deaths of more than eight hundred people.
See entire article by Steph Ball
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/news ... news.shtml
Fresh floods hit Bangladesh and parts of northern India
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Matt-hurricanewatcher
Re: Fresh floods hit Bangladesh and parts of northern India
Over one million hit by fresh floods in India, Bangladesh
20 hours ago
GUWAHATI, India (AFP) — More than one million people have been evacuated or stranded as rivers in northeastern India and Bangladesh rose to alarming levels and submerged vast swathes of countryside, officials said Monday.
In India's Assam state, the army helped shift an estimated 800,000 people as the Brahmaputra river and its tributaries -- swollen by monsoon rains -- breached their embankments late Sunday.
A further 300,000 people further downstream in Bangladesh were displaced or marooned, most of them for the second time in as many months, officials said.
"The flood situation has worsened," Assam state's relief minister Bhumidhar Barman said, adding that thousands of villages had been inundated and 20 of 27 state districts had been affected.
An official bulletin said the massive Brahmaputra, which flows from Tibet through India to Bangladesh and the Bay of Bengal, was above the danger level in 17 places.
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The army is working overtime in the affected areas and we have kept on standby Indian air force helicopters to carry out relief and rescue," he said.
Soldiers rescued villagers marooned by waters in six hard-hit districts in Assam, a state of 26 million people, he said.
"Most of the displaced people are now lodged at makeshift shelters in schools and offices, as well as on raised embankments," said Barman, describing the flooding as the "one of the worst in recent years."
The Assam government says 54 people have died in monsoon flooding this summer, while across India more than 2,500 people have perished, over a quarter of them in Bihar state, according to official figures.
In Bangladesh, farmers had to flee their homes again and took shelter on highland and in schools as rivers burst their banks and submerged vast areas in 25 out of the country's 64 districts, government spokeswoman Mohsena Ferdousi said.
"Most of these people had just returned home to pull their life together," she said.
In Sirajganj town, almost all the houses are now under knee- to neck-deep water, said resident Enamul Kabir.
"The water receded from the town only in mid-August. I don't know how we are going to manage this time," he said.
The toll since the start of monsoon rains in June stands at 966, including deaths from water-borne sickness, snake bites and landslides as well as drowning.
At least 10.5 million people were displaced or marooned in the first spell of the floods.
The country's flood centre said two major Himalayan rivers that empty into the Bay of Bengal through Bangladesh -- the Brahmaputra and the Ganges -- had risen alarmingly in tandem.
Muslim-majority Bangladesh, which has a population of 140 million, has sought an initial 150 million dollars in help from donor agencies with 60 million dollars already pledged as immediate food and medical assistance.
The agriculture ministry estimated that 290 million dollars' worth of crops had been damaged in the initial flooding. The cost to infrastructure and housing has yet to be determined.
Every year floods across India and Bangladesh leave a trail of destruction, killing people, damaging property, washing away roads, submerging crops and drowning livestock.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5icQ ... d4HPmw94jQ
20 hours ago
GUWAHATI, India (AFP) — More than one million people have been evacuated or stranded as rivers in northeastern India and Bangladesh rose to alarming levels and submerged vast swathes of countryside, officials said Monday.
In India's Assam state, the army helped shift an estimated 800,000 people as the Brahmaputra river and its tributaries -- swollen by monsoon rains -- breached their embankments late Sunday.
A further 300,000 people further downstream in Bangladesh were displaced or marooned, most of them for the second time in as many months, officials said.
"The flood situation has worsened," Assam state's relief minister Bhumidhar Barman said, adding that thousands of villages had been inundated and 20 of 27 state districts had been affected.
An official bulletin said the massive Brahmaputra, which flows from Tibet through India to Bangladesh and the Bay of Bengal, was above the danger level in 17 places.
"
The army is working overtime in the affected areas and we have kept on standby Indian air force helicopters to carry out relief and rescue," he said.
Soldiers rescued villagers marooned by waters in six hard-hit districts in Assam, a state of 26 million people, he said.
"Most of the displaced people are now lodged at makeshift shelters in schools and offices, as well as on raised embankments," said Barman, describing the flooding as the "one of the worst in recent years."
The Assam government says 54 people have died in monsoon flooding this summer, while across India more than 2,500 people have perished, over a quarter of them in Bihar state, according to official figures.
In Bangladesh, farmers had to flee their homes again and took shelter on highland and in schools as rivers burst their banks and submerged vast areas in 25 out of the country's 64 districts, government spokeswoman Mohsena Ferdousi said.
"Most of these people had just returned home to pull their life together," she said.
In Sirajganj town, almost all the houses are now under knee- to neck-deep water, said resident Enamul Kabir.
"The water receded from the town only in mid-August. I don't know how we are going to manage this time," he said.
The toll since the start of monsoon rains in June stands at 966, including deaths from water-borne sickness, snake bites and landslides as well as drowning.
At least 10.5 million people were displaced or marooned in the first spell of the floods.
The country's flood centre said two major Himalayan rivers that empty into the Bay of Bengal through Bangladesh -- the Brahmaputra and the Ganges -- had risen alarmingly in tandem.
Muslim-majority Bangladesh, which has a population of 140 million, has sought an initial 150 million dollars in help from donor agencies with 60 million dollars already pledged as immediate food and medical assistance.
The agriculture ministry estimated that 290 million dollars' worth of crops had been damaged in the initial flooding. The cost to infrastructure and housing has yet to be determined.
Every year floods across India and Bangladesh leave a trail of destruction, killing people, damaging property, washing away roads, submerging crops and drowning livestock.
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Matt-hurricanewatcher
Re: Fresh floods hit Bangladesh and parts of northern India
National
Flood scene in northeastern states grim
New Delhi, Sept. 11 (PTI): The flood situation in many states of northeast India was grim today following incessant rains with Mizoram deciding to airlift food grains to villages made inaccessible by landslides. In Assam, five persons, including a two-year-old child and two women, were washed away by turbulent waters in five different places since yesterday, taking the toll in the third wave of floods in the state to 14.
The situation was critical in Morigaon, Nagaon, Lakhimpur, Barpeta and Dhubri districts in the Brahmaputra Valley and Cachar, Hailakandi and Karimganj districts in Barak Valley. In Majuli, the world's largest populated riverine island, an alert was sounded following a breach in the embankment of the Matmora river in Dhakuakhana.
In Manipur, over 54,600 households in four valley districts were affected due to breach of embankments of major rivers. Three persons were swept away by flood waters in Thoubal district in the current wave.
The Mizoram government decided to airlift food grains to villages made inaccessible by landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains and also use horses to deliver food and other essential commodities. Landslide and floods caused by unprecedented heavy monsoon rains have left a trail of destruction in the state, where over 1,000 houses, vast areas under rice cultivation and a large number of fish ponds have been damaged.
Floods along the Mizoram-Bangladesh border washed away at least 600 houses in Tlabung and adjacent villages in the southern part of the state. The Tlawng river submerged the Bairabi railway station, the only one in the state.
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/00 ... 112069.htm
Flood scene in northeastern states grim
New Delhi, Sept. 11 (PTI): The flood situation in many states of northeast India was grim today following incessant rains with Mizoram deciding to airlift food grains to villages made inaccessible by landslides. In Assam, five persons, including a two-year-old child and two women, were washed away by turbulent waters in five different places since yesterday, taking the toll in the third wave of floods in the state to 14.
The situation was critical in Morigaon, Nagaon, Lakhimpur, Barpeta and Dhubri districts in the Brahmaputra Valley and Cachar, Hailakandi and Karimganj districts in Barak Valley. In Majuli, the world's largest populated riverine island, an alert was sounded following a breach in the embankment of the Matmora river in Dhakuakhana.
In Manipur, over 54,600 households in four valley districts were affected due to breach of embankments of major rivers. Three persons were swept away by flood waters in Thoubal district in the current wave.
The Mizoram government decided to airlift food grains to villages made inaccessible by landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains and also use horses to deliver food and other essential commodities. Landslide and floods caused by unprecedented heavy monsoon rains have left a trail of destruction in the state, where over 1,000 houses, vast areas under rice cultivation and a large number of fish ponds have been damaged.
Floods along the Mizoram-Bangladesh border washed away at least 600 houses in Tlabung and adjacent villages in the southern part of the state. The Tlawng river submerged the Bairabi railway station, the only one in the state.
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/00 ... 112069.htm
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Matt-hurricanewatcher
Re: Fresh floods hit Bangladesh and parts of northern India
Indian Floods in South, East Take Monsoon Death Toll to 2,827
By Bibhudatta Pradhan
Sept. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Floods in India's southern and eastern states caused by monsoon rains have killed at least 62 people in the last two days, taking the death toll in the South Asian nation to 2,827 for the June-September season.
Rains in the last week in the southern states of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka and Assam and Bihar in the east have triggered floods and landslides, which have led to the destruction of villages and devastation of crops, the home ministry's National Disaster Management unit said.
In Andhra Pradesh, as many as 21 people have died in the past three days and 4,390 families in 48 villages have been ``severely affected'' because of floods, the agency said on its Web site. Road transport has been disrupted and 16,581 hectares of crops have been damaged, it said.
Floods have hit 9,954 villages in Assam and left at least eight people dead in the last two days, the government's National Disaster Management unit said in the report.
As many as 50 million people have been affected by floods that have destroyed 1.6 million homes and damaged about 5.9 million hectares of farm land in the four-month monsoon season, the agency said yesterday. The United Nations has described the flood as the ``worst in living memory.''
As many as 22.6 million people in 10,804 villages of 22 districts in Bihar have been hit by the floods. The government has been rescuing the marooned people by boat, providing temporary shelter in relief camps, the report said.
The floods toll in Karnataka rose to 22 today with seven more deaths reported since the last evening, with torrential rain in 10 districts in the last four days, the Press Trust of India reported. Rescue and relief operations have gained momentum and people in marooned villages have been evicted to safer places, the news agency said from the state capital of Bangalore, the nation's technology hub.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= ... efer=india
By Bibhudatta Pradhan
Sept. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Floods in India's southern and eastern states caused by monsoon rains have killed at least 62 people in the last two days, taking the death toll in the South Asian nation to 2,827 for the June-September season.
Rains in the last week in the southern states of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka and Assam and Bihar in the east have triggered floods and landslides, which have led to the destruction of villages and devastation of crops, the home ministry's National Disaster Management unit said.
In Andhra Pradesh, as many as 21 people have died in the past three days and 4,390 families in 48 villages have been ``severely affected'' because of floods, the agency said on its Web site. Road transport has been disrupted and 16,581 hectares of crops have been damaged, it said.
Floods have hit 9,954 villages in Assam and left at least eight people dead in the last two days, the government's National Disaster Management unit said in the report.
As many as 50 million people have been affected by floods that have destroyed 1.6 million homes and damaged about 5.9 million hectares of farm land in the four-month monsoon season, the agency said yesterday. The United Nations has described the flood as the ``worst in living memory.''
As many as 22.6 million people in 10,804 villages of 22 districts in Bihar have been hit by the floods. The government has been rescuing the marooned people by boat, providing temporary shelter in relief camps, the report said.
The floods toll in Karnataka rose to 22 today with seven more deaths reported since the last evening, with torrential rain in 10 districts in the last four days, the Press Trust of India reported. Rescue and relief operations have gained momentum and people in marooned villages have been evicted to safer places, the news agency said from the state capital of Bangalore, the nation's technology hub.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= ... efer=india
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