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"I am touring the worst-hit southern Assam districts today. In India's Assam state, there was little sign of hope. Other families still have their cattle, but are struggling to provide them with feed. They left them behind and now when they returned home there is no trace of them," he said. "I just visited one family which had three cows before the flood hit. Sajedul Hasan, BRAC's director of disaster risk management, said many families had lost their cattle.
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They need food, they need care and medical attention," he said. "Children and pregnant women are suffering a lot. "Yes, it's going down, but the pace is insignificant," said Tanvir Rahman Dhaly, an official of non-profit aid agency BRAC.ĭhaly said only 15% to 20% of people in the worst-affected districts of Sunamganj and Sylhet bordering India have left shelters there. Up to 78 people have died in floods and 17 others in landslides in India's Assam state, while at least 42 monsoon-related deaths have been recorded in Bangladesh since last month, when floods began ravaging parts of the two South Asian countries, forcing millions to take shelter away from their homes.īangladesh's Flood Forecasting and Warning Center said water in all major rivers in the country's northeast was receding, but downstream water levels in central and eastern parts of the country could rise over the coming day.Īid workers said the pace of decline in water levels in the northeast was very slow. DHAKA, Bangladesh - Water levels were slowly receding Thursday in major rivers in Bangladesh's flood-hit northeast, bringing hopes of relief to millions of Bangladeshis, but woes continued in India's northeast, where 5.5 million people remained affected, officials said.