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• Heavy floods and landslides, as a result of monsoon heavy rains occurred during the last week of June in the districts of Chittagong, Bandarban and Cox’s Bazar in the Southeast of Bangladesh.
• A Joint Needs Assessment Phase II (JNA) was carried out in July, while a second period of heavy rain from 22– 27 July caused new floods, landslides and further displacements.
• Tropical Cyclone “Komen” that affected the same districts between 30 July and 01 August left more than 320,000 displaced in cyclone shelters in Cox's Bazar and Chittagong, while the secondary effect of “Komen” was again heavy rainfall, causing additional landslides and flooding, that were not limited to the three previously affected districts, but extended to all the coastal regions.
• According to the Joint Needs Assessment, as a result of the first two periods of heavy rain, more than 1.8 million people were affected, out of which 73% (1,325 000 people or 265,000 households) are in need of humanitarian assistance.