“We are only halfway through the monsoon season, yet the rainfall, damage and destruction have been devastating,” Sanjay Wijesekera, Unicef Regional Director for South Asia, said in a news release.
In Nepal, 109 people, including children, have died due to floods and landslides this monsoon season. This includes 65 people who were on two buses pushed into a swollen river by landslides in July.
Similarly, in Afghanistan, flash floods last week swept away several hundred homes, claiming at least 58 lives and leaving hundreds of families homeless, further exacerbating existing vulnerabilities.
On the cover photo, vehicles try to drive through a flooded street in Dhaka (Bangladesh) in May 28, 2024 for heavy rain caused by Cyclone Remal caused water logging ©Sk Asan Ali/Shutterstock.com
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