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It was when the body of a long-dead friend surfaced near her front door that Bulu Haldar knew her house was as good as gone.
直到一位死去多時的朋友的尸體飄到她的屋門前，布魯·哈爾達才意識到自己的房子已經不在了。
For weeks, the embankment shielding East Dhangmari, in the Khulna district of southwestern Bangladesh, had been threatening to sink into the Pusur River. First, a ferocious storm had ripped into the outer layer of concrete. Then, at the end of 2017, the river had begun eating into the porous earthen wall itself. Locals rushed in sandbags, but that bought only a few days' respite. When the river finally surged into the cemetery across from Haldar's garden, disinterring skeletons and contaminating the village's drinking pools, it filled her one-room hut waist-deep in muddy brown water.
數周以來，人們一直收到預警消息，說孟加拉國南部庫爾納市一直保護著東當馬里的大堤很快將要沉入帕莎河。一場巨大的風暴曾把這座水泥大堤的外層撕裂。在2017年底，河水又開始滲透混凝土。當地人背來了沙袋好擋住水流，但這也只解了一時之困。河水穿過哈爾達的花園 沖進了墓地，骸骨被掘起。村里人的飲用水也受到了污染。她只有一個房間的小屋被浸在齊腰深的泥水中。
"There was nothing else I could do to protect my house," she said. "We were powerless, like children."
她說：“我什么也做不了，我保護不了我的房子。我們像孩子一樣無能為力。”
