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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