Wind and rain from Cyclone Komen added to damage to India in recent days with almost four million people in 10,000 villages being affected by the floods in the worst-affected Indian state of West Bengal, the home ministry said.
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The state government has also distributed drinking water bottles in the affected areas.
“We had evacuated about 2,000 people during the floods last week but all of them returned to their homes”.
The government has issued an appeal to all the affected in the districts to move to their nearest relief camp before the situation worsens. Authorities in Myanmar said the death toll in the country has climbed to 46, with many villagers in remote areas forced to use makeshift shelters.
Landslides in Chin state – south of Sagaing – have destroyed 700 homes in the state capital Hakha, reported by the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar.
Meanwhile, over 8m people in general have been impacted in original tidal waves resulting from severe rains in a great many tells us, such as the european jurisdictions of Gujarat and Rajasthan, plus West Bengal and also its adjoining Odisha.
Rains have also battered the western state of Rakhine which already hosts about 140,000 displaced people, mainly Rohingya Muslims, who live in exposed coastal camps following deadly 2012 unrest between the minority group and Buddhists. This year West Bengal has been hit hard with 48 people killed, as indicated by state management minister Javed Ahmad Khan.
The annual monsoon season in India stretches from June by means of September-end. The weather patterns are key to the region’s agriculture, but they can be deadly for the thousands of people caught up in landslides and powerful cyclones.
Poor infrastructure and limited search and rescue capabilities routinely hamper relief efforts across the region, with roads, phone lines and electricity often knocked out by rising waters.
“If there are no rains, the water level will come down in the next few days”, he added.
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In neighboring Pakistan, the number of casualties from three weeks of flooding has already exceeded 100, and authorities fear the number could rise ever further in the coming days. As mentioned by Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority, 116 people have so far lost their lives due to floods in different parts of the country.
