Bangladesh is bracing itself on potentially devastating new flooding after major rivers swelled ‘alarmingly’ and exceeded or neared danger levels, according to the governments Cataract Forecasting Centre.

More than one million people eat been evacuated or stranded as rivers in northeastern India and Bangladesh rose to alarming levels and submerged elephantine swathes of countryside. In India’s Assam state, the army helped hours an estimated 800,000 people as the Brahmaputra river and its tributaries - hypertrophied by monsoon rains - breached their embankment.

An additional 300,000 people further downstream in Bangladesh were displaced or marooned, most of them for the second time in diverse months. An official communique said the Brahmaputra river, which flows from Tibet through India to Bangladesh and the Bay of Bengal, was above the danger level in 17 places.

These floods are expected to be very serious and to pose further distress to those living in the affected districts. Multifarious embankments had been re-built and seedlings planted but this second white horse of floods could wash away the latest rebuilding and belief potential chow shortages.

Government figures declared over 800 deaths since the dawn of the floods mostly from drowning and snakebites.

The energetic floods threaten foremost impair on newly sown rice paddies and vegetable fields - over a million hectares of land across the inundated districts. If the waters do not recede near in these districts, these crops could be totally lost and contribute to the looming provisions moment.

As part of its emergency relief operations, UNICEF is providing essential life saving drugs, high protein (BP5) biscuits, bags of IV saline, 10,000 division kits and shelter accoutrements.

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