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Bangladesh:Flood:2012/06/26

Duration2012/06/26 At least 13 persons have died due to heavy rainfall which triggered flood and landslide in different districts of Chitttagong and Sylhet division of Bangladesh.
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NameFlood

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  • Government of Bangladesh 2012/07/18
    Flood and landslide causes huge damage at Chittagong, Cox\'s bazar, Bandarban, Sylhet and Sunamganj districts where 125 people died. At the same time low land and char areas were flooded due to the increase of water at some points of Kurigram, Gaibandha, Sirajganj and Jamalpur districts. 6 people died in this region.
  • Reuters AlertNet 2012/07/09
    Terrifying flash-floods have hit nearly two million people across Bangladesh, triggering landslides and wiping out homes. So far 147 people are confirmed dead, with hundreds of thousands left homeless in the north and south-east of the country.
  • Government of Bangladesh 2012/07/05
    Total number of deaths reached 130. Flood situations are improving in most regions.
  • Government of Bangladesh 2012/07/03
    Death toll for upstream torrential water in hilly region and hill slide as well as for heavy rain fall and flood reached 125. The number of affected families were over 44,000.
  • Government of Bangladesh 2012/06/30
    Death toll for heavy rainfall, torrential water and hill slide has reached 121.
  • Government of Bangladesh 2012/06/28
    Death toll for heavy rainfall, torrential water and hill slide reached 110 and over 900,000 families were affected.
  • Reuters AlertNet 2012/06/27
    At least 100 people have died and 250,000 left stranded by flash floods and landslides in Bangladesh set off by the heaviest rain in years, police and officials said on 27 June 2012.
  • AFP 2012/06/27
    More than 50 people have been killed in landslides in southeast Bangladesh after three days of rains that triggered flash floods.
  • NIRAPAD 2012/06/26
    About 650 thousand of people inundated and thousands acres of cropland ruined away as different districts were flooded following access rainfall all over the country.
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