date:Jul 12, 2012
ic sheeting, medicine, dry food and water purification tablets to affected districts.
An estimated five million people were affected by days of exceptionally heavy rain, and the government says some 58,000 were displaced, but humanitarian partners on the ground say the real number was significantly higher.
At least 131 people in four districts lost their lives when houses collapsed and roads were flooded, the DMRD reported. Among the eight districts impacted, Sylhet District in the northeast