Noodweer in de VS door Orkaan Harvey, met een dertigtal doden, wordt in de westerse media onnoemelijk veel belangrijker geacht dan noodweer in India, Nepal en
Bangladesh, waar al 1.500 doden zijn te betreuren…….
Waar het noodweer van de VS prominent in het nieuws is, wordt het noodweer in India, Nepal en Bangladesh weggedrongen naar de achtergrond………
‘Logisch ook’, daar de bevolking in de VS bestaat uit eerste
klasse burgers en die in India, Nepal en Bangladesh uit derde klas burgers……….
Vanmorgen werd over India nog bericht dat een flatgebouw in Bombay (Mumbai) is ingestort, oorzaak: het aanhoudende noodweer. Daarbij zijn wat tot nu toe bekend is 14 mensen omgekomen en worden er nog 25 vermist…….. Gevreesd wordt dat nog meer (vooral oude) gebouwen zullen instorten door dit aanhoudende noodweer…..
Het ingestorte gebouw in Bombay.
Hier een verslag met foto’s over de situatie in India en Bangladesh (men spreekt hier nog over twaalfhonderd doden, maar zoals u hierboven kon lezen, is dit dodental intussen naar boven bijgesteld):
Monsoons
kill 1,200, displace millions in India, Nepal & Bangladesh
Indians wade through a flooded street during heavy rain showers in Mumbai on August 29, 2017 © Punit Paranjpe / AFP
Published
time: 30 Aug, 2017 13:06
India,
Nepal and Bangladesh are battling some of the worst monsoon rains in
recent history, which have left around 1,200 people dead and 41
million people affected. In India more than 32 million people have
reportedly been impacted by downpours.
Vast
areas of land across all three countries are underwater, according to
the Red
Cross. “Rainwater
from the Himalayas is travelling down through Nepal’s lower-lying
areas, through swollen rivers in north-east India and eventually
through the floodplains of Bangladesh,” it
said in a statement.
A man casts his fishing net in the flood waters next to his partially submerged hut in Morigaon district in the northeastern state of Assam, India August 17, 2017 © Anuwar Hazarika / Reuters
West
Bengal is the worst affected area in India, with 152 deaths and 15
million people affected, according to the UN.
The country is struggling to deal with heavier-than-usual monsoon
rains, with more than 600 deaths caused by downpours.
Guthail,
Jamalpur in Bangladesh August 19, 2017 © Global Look Press
Floods
in Mumbai have prompted locals to open their homes to those stranded,
using the hashtag “Rainhost.”
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The
Mumbai monsoon rains are reported to be the city’s heaviest since
2005.
READ
MORE: Heavy monsoon rains paralyze India’s financial center, Mumbai
(PHOTOS, VIDEOS)
In
Bangladesh 114 people have been killed and nearly 7 million affected.
Women
carry children as they make their way through a flooded area in
Bogra, Bangladesh, August 20, 2017 © Mohammad Ponir Hossain /
Reuters
A
woman carries her belongings while walking along flooded area in
Gaibandha, Bangladesh August 19, 2017 © Mohammad Ponir Hossain /
Reuters
The
heavy rains began in mid-August, with more downpours forecast for the
coming days. Video and images uploaded to social media from the
Chitwan District in Nepal show flooded roads from mid-August.
As
the rains continued into late August the situation grew worse, with
143 people killed in Nepal and nearly half a million displaced.
A
school is submerged at the flood affected area in Saptari District,
Nepal August 14, 2017 © Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters
A
man riding a scooter rides along an inundated road after a spell of
heavy rainfall in Lalitpur, Nepal on Sunday, August 27, 2017 ©
Skanda Gautam / Global Look Press
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Hier de link naar het origineel op RT, met o.a. video’s en meer foto’s.