BHOLA, Bangladesh — When the Mehgna River swallowed Mohammad Jewel and Arzu Begum’s tin-roofed family home overnight in southern Bangladesh just over a year ago they had no choice but to leave their ancestral village. When Jewel and Begum visited their family’s old home in Ramdaspur a year later, even more homes were washed away, the river surging through new …
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