Eight dead, two million affected by Bangladesh floods

The death toll from floods in Bangladesh this week has risen to eight, leaving more than two million affected after heavy rains caused major rivers to burst their banks, officials confirmed Saturday. The South Asian nation of 170 million people, crisscrossed by hundreds of rivers, has seen more frequent floods in recent decades. Climate change has made rainfall more erratic and melting glaciers upstream in the Himalayan mountains.Read More