At the hour
when most of Dhaka was settling in for the night, the residents of Korail slum
remained wide awake, trapped in waist-deep floodwaters that would not recede.
From children
to the elderly, everyone had taken shelter on top of beds, with furniture piled
up there as well. Cooking stoves are submerged, and many have not had a single
bite to eat. Residents in almost all of Dhaka’s slums, like Korail, are facing
the same plight.
Over Saturday
and Sunday, Dhaka recorded a total of...