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More than 100 people were killed in severe flooding in Bangladesh, China and India this week, devastating cities and cropland, and forcing millions to evacuate.

ការពិតសំខាន់

An estimated 500,000 people were affected by the flooding this week in the southern Chinese province of ក្វាងទុង, where floodwaters broke a 50-year high, forcing 177,600 people to relocate, damaging 1,729 houses and causing over $250 million in losses, according to a Guangdong Department of Emergency Management statement Tuesday, ទូរទស្សន៍ CNN បានរាយការណ៍។

Floodwaters extended into neighboring ជៀងស៊ី and Fujian provinces – where China’s National Meteorological Center said rainfall since early May reached the highest totals since 1961 – affecting another 485,000 people this week, causing an estimated $70.2 million in damages, according to state-run សារព័ត៌មានស៊ីនហួ.

In India and Bangladesh, at least 100 people were killed in a series of devastating floods and landslides that displaced over 260,000 people in the Indian state of Assam, and 4 million people in Bangladesh, according to UNICEF.

In response to the flooding, the U.S. Agency for International Development announced Tuesday it will provide $250,000 in “ជំនួយភ្លាមៗ” to the people affected by flooding in northeastern Bangladesh, far short of the $2.5 million UNICEF called for in a សេចក្តីថ្លែងការណ៍ ថ្ងៃចន្ទ។

Dramatic videos and images posted on social media showed vehicles – including a ឡាន​ពន្លត់អគ្គីភ័យ – swept down streets as the floodwaters raged through cities in southeast Asia.

សាវតាសំខាន់

Scientists warn that catastrophic flooding events are on the rise, as a result of climate change – which is threatening not only people, but infrastructure and agriculture. Associated Press reported Wednesday that the Indian state of Meghalaya received three times as much rain in the first three weeks of June as it normally would during the entire month, while India’s Assam province received twice as much rain as it normally would. Some level of flooding in South Asia is expected during its monsoon season, which runs from June to September. But the monsoon patterns are both changing and becoming ខ្លាំងបន្ថែមទៀត, scientists say. Another flood in China’s ខេត្តហឺណាន last July killed at least 25 people and forced at least 100,000 people to evacuate, after several days of torrential rain – said to be the heaviest in 1,000 years. China’s worst floods came in 1998, killing 2,000 people and destroying 3 million homes along the Yangtze River.

សម្រង់សំខាន់

Atiqul Haque, the director of Bangladesh’s Department of Disaster Management, told រ៉យទ័រ on Monday that the department is “making frantic efforts to ensure there is food and drinking water for all the affected people.,”

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More than 36,000. That’s the number of children who have so far sought refuge in “overcrowded” shelters in Bangladesh, according to អង្គការ UNICEF.

អានបន្ថែម

South China floods force tens of thousands to evacuate (ព័ត៌មាន AP)

Hundreds of thousands evacuated as floods ravage southern China (ប៊ីប៊ីស៊ី)

Rain-triggered floods in Bangladesh conjure climate warnings (Reuters)