{"id":95659,"date":"2022-06-24T13:43:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T08:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/?post_type=newss&p=95659"},"modified":"2022-06-24T14:35:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T09:05:00","slug":"bangladesh-lost-everything-in-the-floods","status":"publish","type":"newss","link":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/newss\/bangladesh-lost-everything-in-the-floods\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh: Lost everything in the floods"},"content":{"rendered":"
Anowara Begum is a resident of Telikhal village in Companiganj upazila of Sylhet. There was knee-high water in her house on last Thursday afternoon. This increased to waist high in no time. As her own boat had been stolen, she managed a boat from someone else and came to the shelter centre with her family in the evening.<\/p>\n
At the second floor of Telikhal High School shelter at around 11.00am on Sunday, it was seen Anowara was trying to dry some wet rice grain, spreading the grains on a bed sheet. She said, two of her sons had borrowed a boat and gone to their house in the morning. They salvaged the rice stored in their house from under the water. That\u2019s all they have left now. In the yard of this shelter, Neheru Begum (50) was washing some muddy clothes in the floodwater. Her teenage daughter Tayefa was helping her.<\/p>\n
Neheru said, they lost everything in the floods. Even their house was gone. In the morning, their clothes were found on the branches of a tree next to the house. The clothes, beddings and some utensils are the only belongings that are left in their household of five members. Alongside Telikhal High School, Telikhal Primary School and Darus Sunnah Muhammadia Madrasa are also being used as shelter centres. However, more people took shelter in Telikhal High School. There were nine cows tied to the porch of the three-storey building.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, people of three villages were crammed inside the next four rooms. People of different ages were seen busy in their own activities right beside those cows. Rooms on the first floor are also filled with flood-affected people. The rooms on the second floor don\u2019t have doors or windows. People are living in them, barring the doorways and windows with tin sheets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n