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Villages in southern Bangladesh are flooded after being hit by a cyclone, which left at least 16 people dead and prompted an evacuation of about a million people. Cyclone Sitrang made landfall in the south late Monday but authorities managed to get about a million people to safety before the monster weather system hit.
Experts say that Bangladesh, an impoverished delta nation of 170 million people is set for the biggest displacement in human history -- due to climate change. Global sea level has gone up 20 centimetres since 1900, and could rise two to four times that much by the end of this century depending on how quickly humanity draws down carbon pollution, according to the UN climate science panel.
A video captured by a member of a local NGO shows Rohingya refugees fleeing from a camp in southeastern Bangladesh as thick columns of smoke rise above shanty homes. It is the third fire in four days to hit the settlements in the Cox's Bazar district, that houses nearly one million of the Muslim minority from Myanmar.
Dhaka, Feb 19 (EFE/EPA).- Begum, a woman in her 60s, finally found a place to live after losing her home in a flood in 1988, forcing her to come to Dhaka, where for years she lived as a mendicant on the street.Earlier this month, she moved to a shelter for climate refugees in the Bangladeshi capital, a city of 18 million people and where countless people find themselves without a roof over their heads – a large number of them victims of natural disasters.The facility, built over 84,000 square feet near a ferry terminal, was constructed by the Dhaka South City Corporation, following discussions on climate refugees at the C40 World Mayors Summit. (Camera: MONIRUL ALAM).SHOT LIST: A CLIMATE REFUGEES SHELTER CENTER IN SADARGHAT, DHAKA, BANGLADESH.SOUND BITES: RAHEBA KHATUN, PROJECT’S ASSISTANT COORDINATOR (IN ENGLISH).
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