Flood deluge worsens in Bangladesh with millions affected

All the major tributaries of the two transnational rivers were overflowing, according to local media reports. Nur Islam, a shopkeeper in Feni, said his home had been completely submerged. “Everything is underwater,” the 60-year-old said.Bangladesh’s disaster management ministry said in a bulletin that the latest toll of 13 deaths included fatalities in cities along the country’s southeastern coast. That included the main port city of Chittagong and Cox’s Bazar, a district home to around a million Rohingya refugees from neighbouring Myanmar. Areas east of the capital Dhaka were also…