
"If you look at the history, you will hardly get any examples of such early flooding and massive erosion," he said. This year, the Jamuna River at Sirajganj was flowing two meters higher than normal the first week of May, when it is usually much quieter, he said.
People in Sirajganj district said the early flooding brought much faster erosion than in previous years. Already this year, 300 people have lost their homes and crops to the problem, said Fazel Khoda, a local journalist. Parts or all of six villages, as well as hundreds of acres of farmland, have been lost to the Jamuna so far this year, he said, and many more villages are at risk….
A boat on the Jamuna River, shot by Ragib, Wikimedia Commons via Flickr, under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license
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