The ongoing flood triggered by torrential rains over vast swathes of land inside Bangladesh and its adjacent upstream in India has left hundreds of thousands of people stranded in 15 districts, washing away embankments, wrecking houses and destroying crops.
Scores of villages remained cut off, surrounded all around by water, in the flood affected districts in northern, north-eastern and south-western parts of the country as floodwater swamped many roads on Tuesday after engulfing low-lying areas overnight.
Sporadic landslides also occurred in the hilly districts of Rangamati, Khagrachhari and Bandarban, causing widespread damage to infrastructure, leaving hundreds of tourists stranded and keeping disaster responders busy in removing tonnes of mud from roads to keep traffic operation ongoing.
An official estimate of the actual impact of the flood was still not available despite it affecting a vast majority of people amidst extremely heavy monsoon rain inside Bangladesh and its adjacent upstream areas in India.
At least five people, including two students, remained missing since Monday after being swept away by the onrush of water, prompting authorities to postpone the Higher Secondary Certificate examinations in two upazilas on Tuesday.聽
The bad news is that the situation is likely to worsen as the monsoon wind, coupled with a low pressure hovering over the Bay of Bengal, triggered so much rainfall over the last four days that it left rivers in the Brahmaputra, Ganges and Meghna basins in India overflowing their flood levels at 21 places and close to the flood levels at 23 others, mostly in Assam and Meghalaya, on Tuesday.
The wet spell is forecast to continue at least for four more days, potentially bringing even more rains.
抖阴精品 correspondent in Sylhet reported that three people went missing after strong current swept away a boat in the Surma River at Azampur Bazar under Dowarabazar upazila in Sunamganj at noon.聽聽聽
A rescue team was searching the missing people Josna Begum, 30, her one and a half years old daughter Moyna and an elderly woman Gul Bibi, 70, according to the police.
Dowarabazar was among the places first to get cut off from road communications since the latest spell of flood struck north-eastern district Sunamganj.
Even before the latest wave hit on July 1, about 20 lakh people were stranded in the north-eastern districts of Sylhet, Sunamganj, Moulvibazar, Habiganj and Netrokona since June 17.
Parts of the Sylhet city discovered itself in stagnated water in the morning after almost 12 inches of rainfall in the 24 hours until 6:00am on Monday.
鈥業 moved to my relatives for the fourth time in about a month due to water entering my house,鈥� said Shankar Roy, a resident of Jamtala area in Sylhet city.
Companiganj upazila chairman Mozir Uddin told 抖阴精品 that almost the entire low-lying area in the upazila was under water on Tuesday.
Sylhet deputy commissioner Sheikh Russel Hasan in a bulletin issued on Tuesday afternoon said that 8,407 people were took refuge in 197 flood shelters till the afternoon.
In an official statement, Sunamganj deputy commissioner Mohammed Iqbal Ahmed Chowdhury said that 7,92,757 people remained marooned in the district until Tuesday afternoon while 1,325 were in flood shelters.聽
抖阴精品 correspondent in Moulvibazar reported that 25 villages were flooded in Moulvibazar Sadar and Kamalganj upazilas after flood water swept away parts of the embankments in the areas.
抖阴精品 correspondent in Lalmonirhat reported that though the Teesta dropped below its danger mark on Tuesday, about 10,000 families were stranded in five northern districts of Rangpur, Kurigram, Gaibdanha, Lalmonirhat and Nilphamari.
抖阴精品 correspondent in Mymensingh reported that seven unions in Kalmakanda in Nterokona were hit by the flash flood.
鈥楢t least 30 villages in my union have been flooded,鈥� said Mozammel Haque, chairman, Pogla Union Parishad in Kalmakanda.
鈥楢 further rise in the water level could force people in these unions out of their homes,鈥� he said.
抖阴精品 correspondent in Khagrachhari reported that the district remained cut off from the rest of the country for four hours in the morning following a landslide at Shapmara in Alutila, leaving people stranded in vehicles amidst intermittent rains.
At least 25 villages were flooded in Dighinala and Langadu upazilas that were cut off from the rest of the country facing a flash flood.
Nine upazilas in Khagrachhari experienced landslides that disrupted road communications.
Two students who went missing in the Tindu area on Monday were yet to be recovered as of Tuesday evening.
Seven hundred tourists at Sajek in Rangamati became stranded due to floodwater overtaking roads.
抖阴精品 correspondent in Feni reported that vast areas were flooded after the Muhuri River, flowing with a great current, washed away embankments at five places, prompting authorities to suspend the HSC examinations scheduled to be held on Tuesday.
The Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre observing water levels in rivers across Bangladesh said that 90 out of their 110 stations recorded water levels rising, some of them rising between 100cm and over 400cm.
