At least seven bodies were recovered in Sylhet and Sunamganj, as the northeastern region continues to be inundated due to heavy rain.
Three people died in Sylhet while four deaths were reported from Sunamganj as of Sunday.
Abul Kashem, 28, and his grandmother Churetun Nessa, 105, were drowned while on the way to the city from Sujatpur village in Kandigaon union.
ISPRAccording to Selim Ahmed, a local Shwecchashebak League activist, Kashem went to rescue his grandmother and cousins on Thursday when the flood began.
Their boat upturned in front of Sujatpur Ideal School area drowning both Kashem and his grandmother.
Churatunnessa’s dead body floated to the top on Friday while Kashem was found on Sunday.
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Meanwhile, Abdul Hadi, a resident of Nalkat village under Kandigaon was swept away by flood water on Thursday afternoon.
On Sunday, his body was found near his home, Nalkat Government Primary School Principal Abdul Malik Mamun confirmed.
In Sunamganj’s Chhatak Upazila the body of Hanifa Begum, 9, was found near Kaitkona area.
Her uncle Safed Ali Pir said that their boat capsized in the flood water near a local college. Everyone onboard except Hanifa survived.
Two more people Piyush, 40, and Junayed, 27, who went missing on Saturday were also found dead on Sunday.
Previously on Saturday, Sunamganj-5 lawmaker Muhibur Rahman Manik reported five deaths in Dowarabazar and Chhatak areas.
ISPRAround 2,30,632 people in Sylhet have so far taken refuge in 497 shelters. The shelters are also housing around 31,000 livestock animals.
Meanwhile, up to 100,000 people have so far been evacuated from the flood-hit Sylhet and Sunamganj districts, State Minister for Disaster Management and Relief Md Enamur Rahman said on Sunday.
Nearly four million people have been marooned in the two districts in one of the worst floods in the region in memory.
The rain-fed deluge inundated 60% areas in Sylhet district and 90% areas in Sunamganj district, the state minister said.
He added that the Army, Navy, Coast Guard and Fire Service men were conducting rescue operations at the directive of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.