Drone footage shows severe flooding in Bangladesh town
Drone footage taken on Saturday (August 24) showed severe flooding in an eastern Bangladesh town, as monsoon rains continue to inundate parts of the South Asian nation.
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00:00Drone footage taken on Saturday showed severe flooding in an eastern Bangladesh town
00:05as monsoon rains continue to inundate parts of the South Asian nation.
00:09The death toll has risen to at least 18, with over 3 million people stranded as of Sunday.
00:16The most affected districts in Bangladesh included Feni, Mulvi Bazar, Habiganj, Komila,
00:22and Chittagong, where five major rivers were flowing above danger levels.
00:26Road connectivity in several regions were severed,
00:29isolating communities and hampering relief efforts.
00:33An analysis in 2015 by the World Bank Institute estimated that 3.5 million people in Bangladesh,
00:40one of the world's most climate-vulnerable countries, were at risk of annual river flooding.
00:46Scientists attribute the exacerbation of such catastrophic events to climate change.
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