1From July to August, 1987, heavy rains in Bangladesh caused the Ganges River to burst its banks, causing thousands of casualties. Millions of hectares of fertile land were submerged in the ocean, and millions of houses and nearly a thousand bridges and culverts were washed away, resulting in extremely heavy losses.
On the night of July 19 this year, the clear sky suddenly became overcast, with lightning and thunder, and the wind roared, which woke up the sleeping residents in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. When the storm came, the trees were uprooted and the roof of the bungalow was swept away by the ruthless wind. It rained heavily, the ground was sunny, and countless houses collapsed in the rainstorm.
This sudden natural disaster left unprepared residents at a loss and people in despair. At least 30,000 families were displaced by the rainstorm, and tens of thousands of acres of cultivated land for growing crops were seriously damaged. The worst-hit areas are five districts in Jamarpur County, which is located at 144 km northwest of Dhaka, followed by Narel County, which is located at 1 15 km southwest of Dhaka. The heavy rain swallowed up almost all the houses here, leaving thousands of residents homeless.
However, this is only the beginning. The relentless rainstorm continues, and the flood is getting worse and worse. By August 2, nearly half a month, 25 of the 64 counties in China were hit by floods, and the number of people affected by floods reached 20 million. The flood claimed hundreds of lives and destroyed millions of acres of crops, millions of houses, 500 bridges and some culverts. However, the water levels of many rivers in Bangladesh continue to rise, and floods in neighboring Indian catchments have caused some rivers to exceed the warning water level. The Bangladeshi government immediately took measures to mobilize troops to deploy on the banks of several rivers that have exceeded the warning line, patrolling day and night to prevent the banks from breaking their banks.
A month later, on August 20th, the floods in the capital Dhaka and its surrounding areas continued to worsen. The water level of the Briganga River flowing through Dhaka continues to rise, and the water level has exceeded the warning line by 45 cm. Road traffic between Dhaka and 20 counties in the north has been cut off by floods, and railway links with rajshahi in the northwest and Kurna in the southwest have also been cut off.
Nara Gan Jie near Dhaka is home to the largest jute processing plant in the world. Affected by the flood, at least 30 factories were forced to close and about 200 jute warehouses were flooded.
On August 2 1, Bangladeshi President Arsad visited some severely affected areas. He asked troops and personnel from all sides to invest in emergency rescue and disaster relief, and asked relevant government departments to formulate rescue plans to alleviate the suffering of the victims. The Bangladeshi government appealed to Islamic countries for help to overcome the disaster caused by the flood. Bangladesh's Minister of Religious Affairs told 14 Islamic countries that Bangladesh is willing to accept cash and other assistance, but now it is in urgent need of food, clothes, medicine and transportation.
During the severe floods, Turkey, Kuwait and other countries sent planes to provide relief supplies to Bangladesh. Mulana Mannan, Minister of Relief and Resettlement in Bangladesh, said that by the end of August, the Bangladeshi government had also formulated a recovery plan for the disaster area. The plan includes providing free rice seeds to farmers and allocating 65.438+0.2 billion taka (about 4 million US dollars) for repairing roads and bridges destroyed by floods. The government has provided a total of $80 million in cash and 6.5438+0.3 million tons of grain to the disaster-stricken areas, and the Bangladeshi armed forces will use the materials provided by foreign countries to help the disaster-stricken areas repair the houses and roads that have been washed away.
At the beginning of September, the catastrophic flood that caused flooding in 1/3 areas has been alleviated, and the water levels of major rivers in the country have begun to decline, and the danger has basically passed.
1987 from July to September, 47 of the 64 counties in Bangladesh were hit by floods and heavy rains, resulting in more than 2,000 deaths, 25,000 livestock drowned, more than 2 million tons of grain destroyed, 20,000 kilometers of roads and 772 bridges and culverts washed away, tens of millions of houses collapsed, and a large area of crops were damaged, with the number of people affected reaching 20 million. The flood made dysentery epidemic in some disaster-stricken areas, 800 thousand victims were infected with dysentery, and nearly 100 people died.
Bangladesh, located in the largest river delta in the world, suffers from floods and hurricanes from the Bay of Bengal every year. Bangladesh often suffers from floods, which is related to its location in the world-famous monsoon region and natural geographical conditions. Bangladesh is located in the lower reaches of Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers, and the upper reaches of the two rivers are at the southern foot of the rainy Himalayas. Meghala yabang, which borders Bangladesh in the east of India, has the most precipitation in the world. Every time a huge amount of precipitation in the upper reaches is injected into the Ganges and Yarlung Zangbo rivers, it often causes the banks in the lower reaches to burst their banks and the rivers to flood everywhere. Bangladesh, which is flat and low-lying, naturally cannot escape the flood.
Frequent floods have caused great losses to the people of Bangladesh. 1987 The summer flood is said to be the biggest in the history of Bangladesh. It is generally believed that the main reason for this catastrophic flood disaster is that the government did not take relevant preventive measures in advance. How to get rid of the heavy disaster caused by the flood has become a major problem that the Bangladeshi government urgently needs to solve, and it has also attracted worldwide attention.