Bangladesh, Aug. 29 -- The Padma River is eating away at villages along the Bangladesh-India border, as erosion worsens each day in four unions of Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj.

Hundreds of homes and thousands of bighas of farmland have already been lost to the river's current, along with mosques, madrasas and schools.

The destruction has displaced thousands, and even a camp of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) is now at risk of being swallowed by the water.

Over the past two years, at least 10 villages in Char Ashariadaha and Dewpara in Rajshahi's Godagari Upazila and in Char Alatuli and Char Debinagar in Chapainawabganj Sadar Upazila have disappeared into the Padma.

Families who have shifted their homes multiple times to escape the e...