From Dhaka to Germany: Water, water everywhere, after the flood

The devastating flooding in Western Germany and Belgium took a major toll on lives as it ripped through houses and roads, leaving battered towns that shopowners described as 'unrecognisable'. But it i...

By Madhu Kapparath
Jul 22, 2021, 10:40 IST2 min
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<p class="Default"><strong>New Zealand</strong><br /><br />A soldier looks out from a helicopter as they fly over the flood damage after heavy rains washed away bridges and cut roads in the...
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<p><span style="color: black font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><strong>India</strong> <br /></span></p> <p><span style="color: black font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">A&nbspNational Disast...
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<p><strong>Brazil</strong><br /><br />A resident is vaccinated against Covid-19 in Anama town, Amazon, Brazil, by a healthcare worker who arrived in a boat amid floods in the region. May 20...
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<p class="Default"><strong>Belgium</strong><br /><br />Cars piled up by the swirling water at a roundabout in the Belgian city of Verviers, after heavy rains and floods lashed western Europ...
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<p class="Default"><strong>China</strong><br /><br />Village officials evacuate residents from a flooded area following heavy rains in Dazhou in China"s southwestern Sichuan province. July ...
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<p class="Default"><strong>Austria</strong><br /><br />Turkish-Austrian Ayse Karaaslan (L) meets with her next door neighbour Alexander Eisenmann, an Austrian who rescued her from the devas...
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<p class="Default"><strong>Germany</strong></p> <p class="Default">The jerseys of an old men"s football team of the local sports club are hung out after being taken out of a flooded cellar...
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<p class="Default"><strong>Afghanistan</strong></p> <p class="Default">Afghan shopkeepers secure sacks of flour stored inside containers amid the debris from a flood at Peshghor village in...
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<p class="Default"><strong>Cuba</strong><br /><br />A classic American car drives along a flooded street at the 10 de Octubre municipality in Havana, Cuba. June 13, 2021.</p>
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<p class="Default"><strong>Ukraine</strong><br /><br />A food delivery person tries to find his way out of a flooded street during a heavy downpour in Kyiv, Ukraine. July 19, 2021</p>
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<p class="Default"><strong>Sri Lanka</strong></p> <p class="Default">A Sri Lankan Army personnel distributes food to flood victims after heavy monsoon rains in Kelaniya, on the outskirts o...
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<p class="Default"><strong>Germany</strong></p> <p class="Default">Volunteers pack boxes of relief goods for flood victims in the PSD Dome at North Rhine-Westphalia, Duesseldorf. The willi...
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<p class="Default"><strong>Bangladesh</strong></p> <p class="Default">Cycle rickshaw pullers wade through a waterlogged street after a heavy downpour in Dhaka. July 4, 2021.</p>
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<p class="Default"><strong>Netherlands</strong></p> <p class="Default">Locals form a chain to relay sandbags near flooding on the Maas river in Limburg, Netherlands. The flooding has been ...
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<p class="Default"><strong>Switzerland</strong></p> <p class="Default">Firefighters install a mobile inflatable barrier against floods on the Schwanenplatz square in Luzern, Switzerland. J...
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<p class="Default"><strong>India</strong><br /><br />A girl plays in a waterlogged street following heavy monsoon rainfall in Mumbai. In India, monsoon is simply another word for flooding t...
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