After ravaging villages for about a week floodwater now surged towards upazila towns sweeping away embankments built to protect them in some of the flood affected northern districts.
The office of the Water Development Board confirmed breaches in at least three town protection embankments in Lalmonirhat sadar, Sundarganj of Gaibandha and Pirgachha of Rangpur on Sunday as major northern rivers kept swelling amidst continued onrush of water from upstream.
Twenty-six villages have been inundated after parts of the embankments were swept away leaving several thousand people freshly stranded in the affected districts.聽聽
鈥楲arge damage to infrastructures is feared if towns are flooded,鈥� Ahsan Habib, superintending officer, BWDB Rangpur circle, told 抖阴精品 correspondent in Lalmonirhat.聽
In Sylhet division, Kulaura municipality mayor Shipar Uddin Ahmed held a press conference on Sunday revealing that two waves of flooding caused damage of Tk聽50 crore to the town since the end of June.
抖阴精品 correspondent in Moulvibazar reported that parts of the town remained waterlogged for more than three weeks, disrupting services, including emergency medical service, to the inhabitants.
聽 Mayor Sipar Uddin said that 400 people from 119 families were still in shelters in the municipality, in addition to 10,000 people living in submerged areas.
鈥楶eople have been living聽 in inhumane conditions for 24 straight days,鈥� he said.
The mayor said that the flood wrecked infrastructures such as houses, roads, drains, culverts, and cattle farms in 9 wards of the municipality.
The mayor called for authorities to scale up its flood response with more food aid.
The Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre reported that major northern rivers kept swelling on Sunday with the highest increase in water level of one metre recorded in Jamuneswari of Badarganj, Rangpur in the 24 hours till 9:00am on Sunday.
The Dudhkumar swelled by 29 centimetres while the Dharla saw its water level rose by 30 centimetres over the same time.
The Dudhkumar was flowing 51 centimetres above its danger mark at Pateswari while the Dharla was flowing 31 centimetres above the danger mark.
A total of 10 rivers were flowing above their danger marks at 21 points in a dozen districts till 9:00am on Sunday, according to the FFWC.
In a bulletin issued on Sunday afternoon, the FFWC warned that the Teesta, Dharla and Dudhkumar rivers might rise at times in the next 24 hours. The Teesta River might flow above danger level for a short duration, while the flood situation at low-lying areas along the Dharla and Dudhkumar rivers in the Kurigram district might deteriorate.
The water levels of Jamunashwari, Karatoa, Bangali, Upper Karatoya,
Purnabhava, Tangon, Ichhamati-Jamuna, Atrai, Mahananda and Little Jamuna rivers in the northern and northwestern parts of the country might rise at times by today.
The flood situation in low-lying Serajganj along the Atrai River might deteriorate and the flood situation at Gaibandha along Ghagot might slightly improve, the FFWC said.
Three more people, including a child, drowned in flood water on Sunday.
The deceased were Mosaddek, 63, who died at Aditmari in Lalmonirhat, Parul Rani, 52, a resident of Pirgachha, Rangpur, and Belal, a child of Ulipur, Kurigram, reported 抖阴精品 correspondent in Lalmonirhat.
抖阴精品 correspondent in Kurigram reported that over 23,000 people took refuge in 404 flood shelters in the district, which emerged as the worst flood affected so far affecting hundreds of thousands of people.
Authorities so far allocated 387 tonnes of rice, 19000 packets of dry food and Tk聽22 lakh in cash in flood assistance.
抖阴精品 correspondent in Sylhet reported the death of a boatman by electrocution in a haor at Shalla upazila in Sunamganj on Sunday.
The deceased was Samed Miah, 50, a resident of Natunpara village at Atgaon, police said.
The flood situation however improved to some extent in the haor region with all major rivers remaining in a falling trend. The Kushiara at Amalshid fell by 38cm, the largest drop in any water level in the reporting cycle till Sunday morning.
The northeastern rivers might keep falling over the next 72 hours.
India Meteorological Department warned about isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall across Bangladesh鈥檚 upstream covering the stretch of districts from northern to the northeastern region through July 10.
The IMD reported up to 190mm of rainfall in the upstream until 8:30am on Sunday.
The FFWC recorded Bangladesh鈥檚 highest rainfall of 172mm in Jashore until Sunday morning.
