On 29th August 1998, Bangladesh experienced it's worst ever river flood.
The cause: The simultaneous rising of the water levels in all three of it's major river system - the Gagnes, the Brahmaputra, and the Meghna.
The increased river levels were chiefly cyclone-infuced. (At 6 crucial monitoring points all 3 rivers were shown to be flowing at their highest levels for over 100 years.
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