The Latest Breaking News from Sylhet

Husnara Begum, from Cardiff, is currently in hospital after her daughter Samira, husband Rafiqul and son Mahiqul all died from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning in the Sylhet region

Samira Islam, 20, was found unconscious next to the bodies of her brother Mahiqul, 16, and father Rafiqul, 51, who died after a suspected carbon monoxide poisoning in Sylhet, a region of Bangladesh

Rafiqul and Mahiqul Islam died after being found unconscious in the north-eastern region of Sylhet late last month

Rafiqul Islam and Mahiqul died after being found unconscious in the north-eastern region of Sylhet late last month

Young volunteers are leading rescue teams helping women and girls hardest hit by catastrophic flash floods in Sylhet

Authorities in Bangladesh intensified efforts on Wednesday to deliver food and drinking water to millions of people struggling after heavy rain unleashed catastrophic flooding across a quarter of the country.

Scientists say that climate change was likely to have made the rains that unleashed catastrophic flooding across Bangladesh worse.

The worst floods in decades in northeastern parts of two nations kill nearly 110 and leave millions scrambling for aid.

Villagers in northeastern Bangladesh are crowding makeshift refugee centers and scrambling to meet boats arriving with food and fresh water as massive floods, which have killed dozens of people and displaced hundreds of thousands there and in neighboring India, continue to wreak havoc

Soldiers on small boats deliver relief material across flooded towns and villages after more than nine million people are marooned in Bangladesh and India following heavy rains, officials say.

DHAKA/GUWAHATI, India: Authorities in flood-hit Bangladesh and northeastern India scrambled on Monday to provide aid to more than nine million people marooned after the heaviest rains in years killed at least 54 people across both South Asian nations, officials said.