This comes over 40 days after Chief Minister Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis were sworn in
Fifteen children have drowned in flash floods that swept through Bangladesh with another 3.5 million urgently needing clean drinking water as the risk of waterborne diseases grows, UNICEF’s country representative said on Friday.
“That’s a staggering number of children and an increase over the last couple of days. Huge areas are fully underwater and are disconnected from safe drinking water and food supplies. Children need help right now,” Sheldon Yett said.
Government and aid agencies have rushed to provide relief including water and other supplies after flash flooding across a quarter of the South Asian nation.
The floods have also disrupted health facilities, shut schools and disrupted malnutrition treatment for hundreds of children, Yett told a briefing in Geneva.
Cases of diarrhoea have risen to 2,700 as of the middle of this week, he added.
Authorities in Bangladesh and neighbouring India have warned of a risk of a disease epidemic. In total, more than 4.5 million people have been stranded and dozens killed in Bangladesh, many in the worst flooding in the Sylhet region in the northeast for more than 100 years.
In the eastern Indian state of Assam, Indian air force helicopters have been deployed to drop food and other supplies to cut-off communities.
ALSO READ:
This comes over 40 days after Chief Minister Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis were sworn in
This has led some airlines to cancel flights to Taipei and alter their paths
It came up as a message on the police control room's WhatsApp helpline
New Delhi fears Beijing will use Hambantota as a military base in its backyard
Omar Khalid Khurasani and his aides were killed in an explosion from an apparent roadside bomb
The country has strong relations with Beijing, a major trade partner mostly for raw materials
School closures due to the pandemic were just the beginning of the "stressful" phase
Tens of thousands of people remain in hiding one year on, fearful of being tracked with digital ID and data systems