Informes

Monsoon rains have left hundreds dead and millions homeless as floods and landslides wreak havoc across Asia. China and India have been worst hit, but Vietnam, the Korean peninsula and Bangladesh have also been badly affected. More than three-hundred people…

Torrential monsoon rains lashing Bangladesh have flooded hundreds of villages, leaving 19 people dead and nearly one million displaced or marooned. At least 70,000 people have been evacuted to shelters after the rain-swollen Gumti River breached parts of a mud levee.…

DHAKA, July 23 (Reuters) - A Bangladesh river ripped through an embankment on Friday to leave 350 families homeless, while authorities battled to get food and medicine to 75,000 people marooned elsewhere in the country by raging floods. The Padma…

DHAKA, July 21 (Reuters) - Meteorologists warned on Wednesday that Bangladesh faced the prospect of devastating flooding this month from persistent monsoon rains. Large areas of southeastern Comilla district are already flooded after the Gomti river broke through an embankment…

Ref: OCHA/GVA - 99/0088 Bangladesh - Floods OCHA Situation Report No. 3 21 July 1999 General Situation 1. The Office of the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Dhaka reports that continuous rain in most of Bangladesh contributed to the significant rise of water…

DHAKA, July 20 (Reuters) - Heavy rains are frustrating rescue efforts in Bangladesh's flooded Comilla district where nearly 70,000 people have been shifted to shelters with many more still marooned, officials said on Tuesday. They said rains which ceased before…

The Disaster Seasonal monsoon flooding in Bangladesh has entered its fifth week, with 33 of the country's 64 districts suffering at some point during this period. The monsoon started early on 7 June with heavy downpours. Flooding began with three…

By Nizam Ahmed DHAKA, July 15 (Reuters) - Soldiers in speed boats evacuated more people from flooded villages on Thursday and ferried food to those still huddled in their half-submerged homes after a river burst an embankment leaving some 70,000…

DHAKA, July 14 (Reuters) - Soldiers, police and volunteers on Wednesday intensified a battle to evacuate thousands of people and save property after a swollen river burst its banks and flooded nearly 30 villages. "There has been no success yet," said…

Dhaka (dpa) - Army volunteers joined civilian rescue workers Tuesday to save a river dyke from crumbling as tropical floods swamped towns and villages in eastern and northern Bangladesh, leaving millions homeless, officials said. Government officials said Tuesday at least five…