Monsoon floods in Bangladesh leave 2,000 homeless

Floods caused by heavy monsoon rains over the weekend claimed two lives and washed away hundreds of flimsy huts, leaving nearly 2,000 people homeless in northern Bangladesh.

Rain-fed rivers burst their banks, swamping more than 200 farming villages in seven northern districts – Gaibandha, Lalmonirhat, Rangpur, Kurigram, Sirajganj, Bogra and Nilphamari, relief officials said.