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<div>'It's over for us': how extreme weather is emptying Bangladesh's villages</div>

The frequency of natural disasters is making life in rural areas increasingly difficult, pushing inhabitants into city slumsThe house Faruk Hossain grew up in has, for the last six months, resisted being claimed by the river, as the rest of the village already has been.But slowly, as the waters have failed to seep away, he has come to accept that the family house has become uninhabitable. Like other villages nearby, Chakla in Bangladesh’s Satkhira district has not re-emerged from the flooding caused by Super-cyclone Amphan, which battered the south of the country in late May, Related: ‘We do not get a chance at happiness’: the Bangladeshi fishermen caught by debt Continue reading...

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