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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
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Faisal Mahmud

Bangladesh suffers long power cuts amid worst heatwave in decades

A rickshaw puller quenches his thirst with a juice during the heatwave in Dhaka [Munir uz Zaman/AFP]

Dhaka, Bangladesh – Abdur Rahman nearly fainted while pulling his rickshaw under the scorching sun in Bangladesh’s capital city. “It is not possible to continue doing this in such weather,” he told Al Jazeera.

For the last few weeks, the slum in Dhaka where Rahman lives has hardly had any electricity at night.

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