| Affected population | 10.6 million |
| Affected families | 2.2 million |
| Newly affected districts | 16 |
| Deaths: As of September 10 |
838 20 – Diarrhea 729 – drowned 70 – snake bites 19 – RTI |
| Number of reported cases illnesses/injuries: Source: Flood Control Room of DGHS (Directorate General of Health Services) as of 10 September |
123,317 – Diarrhea 33,238 – RTI 38,140 – Skin diseases 19,756 – Eye infections 246 – Snake bites 4,723 - Injuries 122,961 – Other |
| No. of Govt. shelters opened for the second round: | 143 |
Note. All data are cumulative; Data gathered from official sources and from UNICEF Staff located in flood affected districts. These figures do not take into account any of the findings from the current RENA missions.
Latest Update
Bangladesh is bracing itself for fresh, potentially devastating new flooding after major rivers swelled ‘alarmingly’ and exceeded or neared danger levels, the government’s Flood Forecasting and Warning Center first announced on 7 September .
Agence-France Presse (AFP) says that more than one million people have been evacuated or stranded as rivers in northeastern India and Bangladesh rose to alarming levels and submerged vast swathes of countryside, according to officials. In India's Assam state, the army helped shift an estimated 800,000 people as the Brahmaputra river and its tributaries -- swollen by monsoon rains -- breached their embankments late on Sunday. A further 300,000 people further downstream in Bangladesh were displaced or marooned, most of them for the second time in as many months, officials said. An official bulletin said the massive Brahmaputra, which flows from Tibet through India to Bangladesh and the Bay of Bengal, was above the danger level in 17 places.
The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) forecasts more rainfall in the next 24 – 48 hrs in West Bengal and Sikkim, Bihar, Assam and Meghalaya and Arunachal states of India.
These floods are expected to be very serious and to pose a second wave of obstacles and difficulties to those living in affected districts. Many embankments had been re-built and seedlings had been planted with the hopes of a new start. This emergency has erased all such hope and will wash away the recent rehabilitation as well as compound the existing problems.
Government figures declare over 800 deaths since the beginning of floods mostly from drowning and snakebites. New deaths from these causes have been reported in the past few days of fresh flooding – while deaths have also been caused from land slides.
Estimated number of newly affected districts is 16 according to Government sources. The total number of districts affected from the first and second round of floods has not been released. Among the newly affected districts are northeastern districts of Sylhet, Netrokona, Sunamganj, Habiganj, Moulvibazar, northwestern districts Nilphamari and Rangpur, central districts Madaripur. Three districts in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) have also been affected by flash floods. The districts affected for the second time are more vulnerable as in many cases the embankments had already been washed away and resources depleted from the first wave.
Official sources are yet to determine the total number of people newly affected and displaced by the recurrent floods – district wise data on affected and displaced families has began to come in.
Environmentalists and flood experts expressed concerns over the intensity of the second spell of the floods – which is predicted to last over a longer period of time.
The fresh floods threaten major damage on newly sown paddy rice and vegetable fields - over a million hectares of land across the inundated districts. If the waters do not recede fast in these districts, these crops could be completly lost contributing to the huge loss of the farmers and adding to the looming food crisis.
The displaced and jobless are heading to the big cities in increasing numbers in search of food and employment. According to media reports, many of these people are involving themselves in degrading occupations such as begging due to inadequate job opportunities in cities.