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Bangladesh, Sylhet & Sunamganj region faces
‘worst flooding in 100 years’

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Four million people, including 1.6 million children, stranded by flash floods in North-Eastern Bangladesh are in urgent need of help, UNICEF has said.

Devastated floods have displaced millions of people and left vast swathes of land inundated, with state officials in the hardest-hit Sylhet district calling it the worst flooding in over a hundred years.

Sylhet and Sunamganj are virtually isolated from the rest of the country due to incessant rains and huge floods, which were the heaviest to hit in a century.

Around 300,000 people have been moved to shelters in Sylhet but more than four million people are stranded near their homes.

The situation in Bangladesh has been worsened by waters cascading down from the surrounding hills of India's Meghalaya state, including some of world's wettest areas like Mawsynram and Cherrapunji which each received more than 970mm (38 inches) of rain in one day, according to government data.

Meghalaya and neighbouring Assam state have received 134% more rainfall than the average in June, according to data compiled by the state-run India Meteorological Department.

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