Flood deluge worsens in Bangladesh with millions affected

The floods come less than three weeks after the ouster of ex-premier Sheikh Hasina, who was forced to flee by helicopter to India, her government’s biggest political patron, during a student-led uprising.
Hasina’s 15-year rule saw widespread human rights abuses, including the mass detention and extrajudicial killings of her political opponents.
She was replaced by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, who is heading an interim government facing the monumental task of charting democratic reforms ahead of expected new elections.
Asif Mahmud, a leader of the student protests that ousted Hasina, and who is now in Yunus’ caretaker cabinet, on Wednesday accused India of “creating a flood” by deliberately releasing water from dams.