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6. What happened to Dhaka?

  • 20m underwater
  • cut off as bridges and roads destroyed

7. How many people were killed?

  • 131,000
  • 1300
  • 13,000

8. How many flood shelters are to be put in place?

  • 50,000
  • 5000
  • 500

9. How much did the flood damage cost?

  • $1 billion
  • $1 million
  • $10 million

10. How much rice was destroyed?

  • 2 million tonnes
  • 2 million ha
  • 2 billion tonnes

11. How much of land was flooded?

  • over 2/3
  • over 1/3
  • 20 -30%

12. What caused the floods?

  • depression
  • low lying land, tropical cyclones, snowmelt from himalyas
  • atlantic weather front
  • extremely heavy rainfall