Deadly floods affect more than 16 million people in South Asia, victims crying for help

Monsoon floods in South Asia have killed at least 500 people, affecting more than 16 million in Bangladesh, Nepal, and India.

It is learned that the flood displacing tens of thousands of people is becoming one of the worst regional humanitarian crisis days by day. Food shortages and diseases are now growing concerns.

More than a third of Bangladesh and Nepal were flooded, while about 11 million people across four northern Indian states were also affected, according to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent (ICRC).

ICRC’s deputy regional director Martin Faller said: “this is fast becoming one of the most serious humanitarian crises this region has seen in many years, and urgent action is needed to meet the growing needs of millions of people affected by these devastating floods”, BBC reports.

“Millions of people across Nepal, Bangladesh and India face severe food shortages and disease caused by polluted flood waters’, he said in a statement.

Local news media reports that 35 percent of the country has been inundated by the flood caused by an onrush of water from upstream. Northern and east-northern parts of Bangladesh have been the hardest hit region by the flood.

The Facebook users in Bangladesh have been voluntarily engaged in helping the marooned, criticizing government reluctance in rescuing vulnerable people.

People seek for help.

However, country’s local media have been reporting that many people in remote areas are starving as there is no food available. People take shelter on highways were seen raising their hands for foods as well.

But this is not all, it is predicted that the flood would be worse throughout the next couple of days as more in the upstream is coming.

Abdul Aziz, Deputy Chief at the Ministry of Relief and Disaster Management, said the death toll stood at 88, including a few cases of lightning strikes. The total number of people marooned up until now was figured at 4,126,540, The Daily Star reports.

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