Two rain-swollen rivers in north-eastern Bangladesh have burst through mud embankments, inundating more than 200 villages and marooning about 100,000 people, officials and media reports said today.
Two days of torrential rains caused the flash floods in the Moulvibazar and Habiganj districts, local government official Moazzem Hossain said.
No casualties were reported in the flooded region, 100 miles northeast of the capital, Dhaka. The official did not provide further details.
In Moulvibazar, a river broke through its embankment, flooding more than 100 villages, the Jugantar and Sangbad newspapers reported. About 100 other villages were swamped in neighbouring Habiganj district, the reports said. Details about the marooned people were not immediately available.
AP
