Flood disrupts life in Fatikchhari

Torrential rain for three consecutive days and onrush of water from Khagrachhari hills flooded 16 unions out of 20 in Chittagong's Fatikchhari upazila marooning over 10,000 families and obstructing traffic on Chittagong-Khagrachhari road.
Local administration sources said about 206 primary schools in the affected areas closed down due to flash floods.
Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Anjana Khan Majlish said the schools would open once the situation improves.
One Tipu Sultan from the upazila drowned after being washed away in a strong current while a boy, whose name could not be known immediately, died of snakebite.
Thousands of villagers were marooned in the waterlogged villages. Rosangiri, Sundarpur, Paindang, Daulatpur, Nanupur, Samitir Hat, Bhujpur and Shuabil areas of the upazila were submerged by onrush of water, locals said.
Flood water damaged many village roads and mud houses, creating immense sufferings to the villagers, they said.
Ten unions out of 14 of Fatikchhari Police Station and six unions of adjoining Bhujpur Police Station in the upazila are completely inundated with rainwater, said Manjur Kader, officer-in-charge of Fatikchhari Police Station.
Many schools became relief centres where local administration is distributing relief.