Second spell of floods hits Bangladesh hard, cripples life
According to an estimation, more than 7 million people are affected by the floods in the last few days.
According to an estimation, more than 7 million people are affected by the floods in the last few days.
Around 300,000 people have been relocated to shelters, but more than four million people are still stranded near their homes in the country's north-east region.
The UN Central Emergency Response Fund recently provided UN agencies with 5.2 million US dollars to help families most at risk, the spokesman said.
Bangladesh is regularly flooded during the June-September monsoon as hundreds of rivers that feed into the Bay of Bengal burst their banks.
The waters have inundated and damaged homes, roads, educational institutions, and crop fields in 15 districts, bdnews24 reported citing disaster management officials as saying.
