Fresh areas flooded in Gaibandha
Flood water submerges Balashi river port area in Fulchhari upazila of Gaibandha as the situation worsens in the district yesterday.Photo: STAR
Fresh areas in Gaibandha were inundated yesterday while the flood situation in Lalmohirhat marked slight improvement from Saturday night.
Fresh areas of Gaibandha Sadar, Fulchhari and Shaghata were flooded yesterday, reports our correspondent.
The badly affected areas are Goderhat, Boali, Badiakhali, Rasoolpur, Bhaserpara, Balashi, Ketkirhat, Kalasona, Ratanpur, Mashamari and Nilkuthi villages where thousands of people were marooned and aman seedlings and vegetables went under floodwater.
Three children drowned in floodwater in Shaghata and Sundarganj upazilas yesterday. Four-year-old Khushi of village Kumarpara under Shaghata upazila fell into floodwater from bed at night and drowned.
Ruhel of Patilbari village in the same upazila drowned in floodwater as he fell from banana raft and Habibur Rahman, 8, a student of class two of Kuthipara Primary School in Sundarganj upazila drowned in the surging water while crossing a bamboo made bridge.
Meanwhile, at least 100 metres of the flood control dyke at Haldia in Shaghata upazila collapsed yesterday inundating 14 villages and snapping road communications with other parts of the upazila.
Erosion also took an alarming turn at Shaghata Sadar union, where the police station is now on the verge of being devoured.
Five primary schools in Shaghata union have also been eroded away rendering 350 flood-hit families shelterless.
In Lalmonirhat, flood situation started improving from Saturday night as water levels of main rivers Teesta and Dharla fell below danger mark.
Water has started receding from most homesteads and people who took shelter on government roads, schools and college are returning to their homes.
But a few areas of Goddimari and Sindurna villages of Hatibandha upazila and Kalmati, Bongram and Bowalmari villages of Sadar upazila are still reeling under floodwater, reports a correspondent.
Several thousand people in those areas are facing untold problems as they are not getting food and pure drinking water.
Mozammel Haque,48, a flood affected person at Bowalmari village of Sadar upazila said that the people of his village are still struggling with one foot water. “We are facing severe scarcity of food and drinking water,” he said.
Mogholhat UP chairman Habibur Rahman Habib said, over a thousand families in Bowalmari village have been facing the worst flood as the village is in Dharla river shoal.
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