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Erosion to devour 3,700 hectares of land this yr [1]

The four major rivers — Jamuna, Ganges, Padma and Meghna — may grab around 3,700 hectares of land leaving 36,680 people landless and homeless this year.

Publication Date: 
11/04/2014
Daily Sun (Bangladesh) [2]
Tags:
Bangladesh [3], Soil Erosion [4], Rivers [5], Natural Disasters [6], Ganga [7], Padma [8], Meghna [9], Floods [10], South Asia [11]
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