The north-eastern Sylhet division is going to grapple with yet another spell of flash flood within the next two days soon after partial receding of the second phase floodwater.
The Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre under the Bangladesh Water Development Board issued the warning in a bulletin on Friday.
According to the information from meteorology agencies, in the next 24 hours medium to heavy rainfall, and in the next 48 hours heavy to very heavy rainfall are expected in the north-eastern districts along with adjoining upstream parts of the country.
It might lead to swelling of rivers in this region, the bulletin said.
It also warned that the water level of Surma, Kushiyara, Old Surma and Sarigowain rivers in the region might rise rapidly in the next 48 to 72 hours, causing a brief flood situation in the low-lying areas of Sylhet and Sunamganj districts.
On Friday, the highest 63 millimetres of rainfall in the country in 24 hours until 9:00am was recorded at Maheshkhola in Sunamganj and 32.4mm rainfall was recorded in Sylhet in 24 hours until 6:00am on the day, according to the WDB.
The Kushiyara River was flowing 85 centimetres above the danger level at Fenchuganj upazila in Sylhet district and 19cm above at Markuli under Baniachang upazila in Habiganj as of Friday afternoon, the WDB said.
The flood victims of different remote downstream villages of the division told 抖阴精品 on Friday afternoon that they could not return to normal life so far as the stagnant water from the previous flash floods did not completely recede from many areas.
鈥楳ost of the flood-stricken people are unable go out to do daily activities as the rural roads still remain under floodwater,鈥� Moyna Miah, member of the Islampur union parihsad at Chhatak upazila in Sunamganj said.聽
Rashid Ali, a resident of Bangaon village under the Islampur union, told 抖阴精品 that his tin-shed house was completely damaged in the recent flood and he was trying now to repair the house as the floodwater had just receded from his house. He with his family was still staying in a relative鈥檚 house.聽聽
鈥業 just cannot think anything about how we would survive amid back-to-back floods if the warning about yet another flash flood becomes true,鈥� he said.
According to the data available with the administrations of Sylhet, Sunamganj, Moulvibazar and Habiganj districts, nearly 20 lakh flood-stricken people remained stranded as of Friday afternoon amid prolonged sufferings.聽
Of them, around 20,000 victims were staying at different flood shelter centres in the affected upazilas across the Sylhet division.
Sunamganj district administration said in a bulletin that 7,92,757 people of 83 out of 92 unions聽 in the district鈥檚 12 upazilas were marooned as of Friday afternoon.
Moulvibazar-2 constituency lawmaker Shafiul Alam Chowdhury, also organising secretary of the ruling Awami League, said in a press conference held at the Kulaura Dakbanglaw at noon that more than 1,00,000 people remained stranded in floodwater in his constituency which covers only Kulaura upazila.聽聽
He mentioned that over 2,000 flood-stricken people also took shelter in 28 flood shelter centres of his constituency.
Sylhet district administration said in a similar statement on Thursday that 7,33,220 people remained marooned in the district and 12,196 victims were staying in the flood shelter centres till that afternoon.
Earlier on May 28, the first flash flood of the current monsoon sent more than 10 lakh people in the Sylhet district, including the city, under water.
The second flash flood was triggered only hours before Eid-ul-Azha by heavy downpours and onrush of water from the upstream Meghalaya and Assam states in India in the early hours of June 17, marooning more than 25 lakh people in four districts of Sylhet division and 30 Wards out of 42 in the Sylhet City Corporation.
