Low-lying areas in the eastern part of the capital, which is already facing waterlogging, are likely to be inundated in the next 48 hours, as small rivers surrounding Dhaka and Narayanganj are about to approach danger levels.

Buriganga water yesterday flowed 107 cm below danger level.

Mira, a minor girl of Velakopa in Kurigram and two people in Nilphamari yesterday died from snakebite. Two people also drowned in Kurigram.

Our Mymensingh correspondent reported that Chan Miah, 85, of village Bhatipara under sadar upazila, was washed away by the huge current of Brahmaputra river yesterday.

State-owned news agency BSS reported that three people, including a woman and a child, died in Netrakona yesterday.

Police said Sayed Ali, 62, and Sakhawat, 7, of the village Ojango of Barhatta upazila drowned in Singair Beel, when a boat carrying them capsized.

A middle-aged woman, Rekha Saha of village Shimulkandi under sadar upazila, died from snakebite.

Breaches in the flood protection embankments in some areas of the country also contributed to inundation of fresh areas disrupting road communications between the district sadars and villages.

More and more people are taking shelters at the higher places, mostly embankments, where scarcity of food and drinking is becoming acute by the day, while water-borne diseases like diarrhoea, cholera and skin diseases have become almost a regular phenomenon.

This situation is most likely to deteriorate as the Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC) yesterday reported that water flow in the major rivers, which are already flowing above danger levels, may rise further in the next few days.

According to the FFWC, Jamuna flowed 40 cm, 57 cm, 68 cm, 80 cm and 65 cm above danger levels at Noonkhawa, Chilmari, Bahadurabad, Sirajganj and Aricha yesterday.

Dharla and Teesta flowed 33 cm and 29 cm above danger levels at Kurigram and Dalia.

Flood situation therefore will deteriorate in Lalmonirhat, Kurigram, Gaibandha, Rangpur, Bogra, Jamalpur, Sirajganj, Pabna and Tangail.

Padma rose at all points and flowed 87 cm and 50 cm above danger levels at Goalundo and Bhagyakul, the FFWC reported adding that more areas in Manikganj, Munshiganj, Faridpur, Rajbari, Madaripur and Shariatpur districts and Dohar and Nawabganj upazilas of Dhaka are likely to inundate.

Meghna at Bhairab Bazar continued to rise and may cross danger level by next 24 hours and inundate the low-lying areas in Narsingdi, Brahmanbaria and Narayanganj in next 36 hours.

Our Tangail correspondent reported that over 50,000 people of 50 villages at five upazilas of the district were marooned by floodwater.

About 20,000 families in Gangachara, Kaunia and Pirgachha upazilas have been marooned while about 30,000 families in the district were affected freshly yesterday forcing many of them to take shelter at Choula Shibdeb flood shelter in the last two days, reported our Rangpur correspondent.

Our Nilphamari correspondent reported that two more villages of Purbo Chhatnai Union went under water yesterday while rise of water in the Charalkata river is threatening Nilphamari-Dhaka via Kishoreganj Highway at Khokar Bazar.

A total of 59 unions of nine upazilas in Netrakona went under water leaving around 1.5 lakh people marooned, reported our district correspondent.

Our Gaibandha correspondent reported that Brahmaputra and Ghagot rivers flooded 20 villages under Gaibandha sadar upazila.

Around one lakh people got marooned and many of them took shelters on different flood control embankments under Fulchari and Shaghat upazilas.

Our Manikganj correspondent reported that ferry service between Paturia and Nagarbari remains suspended for the last four days as the Nagarbari terminal went under water.

Our Sirajganj correspondent reported that almost 90 percent of the town went under knee and waist-deep water yesterday washing away a vast part of Sirajganj-Raiganj road.

About 20 villages under Bera and Bhangura upazilas in Pabna were flooded yesterday, reported our district correspondent.

Our staff correspondent in Sylhet reported that over 30,000 labourers became jobless as three major stone quarries of Gowainghat and Companiganj upazilas went under water.