In India and Bangladesh, heavy rain, floods, and thunder have killed dozens of people.

• Severe rain has hit Northeastern India and Northern Bangladesh, causing the worst floods in years.
• At least 52 people have perished in landslides, lightning strikes, and flash floods in the last week.
• Flooding in Bangladesh has buried highways, cutting entire areas off from the rest of the country.

According to officials in both India and Bangladesh, at least 52 people have perished in landslides, lightning strikes, and flash floods in the last week.

Severe rain has hit Northeastern India and Northern Bangladesh particularly hard, causing some of the region’s worst flooding in years and cutting off certain communities.

According to Bihar’s Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar, a lightning strike killed 17 persons on Saturday in the northeastern Indian state.

According to R. Lyngdoh, a senior official of Meghalaya’s State Disaster Management Authority, at least 24 people have perished and three have gone missing in the state of Meghalaya, which borders Bangladesh to the south.

The floods have impacted around 633,000 people, and the state’s Disaster Management Authority will conduct airdrops of basic goods for some areas that are shut off from the rest of the state by road, according to Lyngdoh.

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According to the state disaster management administration, which operates 1,147 relief camps housing 186,424 displaced persons in the neighboring state of Assam, at least nine people have perished and eight individuals have gone missing as of Sunday evening.
Flooding in Bangladesh has buried roads and highways, cutting entire areas off from the rest of the country.

At least two individuals have perished as a result of the flooding, according to Enamur Rahman, the country’s State Minister for Disaster Management. However, reports from news agencies claim that the death toll is far higher, with Reuters estimating 25 deaths over the weekend, citing local officials.

Lack of telecommunication services has made it difficult to adequately estimate the extent of the devastation, especially in the hardest-hit areas of Sylhet and Sunamganj, according to Rahman.

On Sunday, he continued, about 90% of Sunamganj was submerged and nearly completely cut off from the rest of Bangladesh.

The news agency Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) announced on Saturday that the floods have displaced roughly six million people.

“We had some difficulties getting in touch with some districts, but we are currently in touch with everyone. Our first concern right now is a scarcity of drinking water and food, but we are working to secure (some) and deliver it by helicopters “According to Muhammad Mosharrof Hossain, a top official in Bangladesh’s Sylhet division, one of the hardest hit places.
As of Monday, some 300,000 people were in shelters, according to Hossain.

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