A total of 22 people have died in recent floods of Sylhet division since June 15, said Divisional Health Director Himangshu Lal Roy on Tuesday.
Among them, 14 people died in Sylhet, five in Sunamganj and three in Moulvibazar.
The fatalities occurred due to lightning strikes, snakebite, electrocution, landslides and drowning during the period, said Himangshu.
People of Sylhet division have been experiencing severe floods for the past one week and 80% areas of Sylhet and Sunamganj districts have been flooded, leaving four million people marooned.
The residents of the two districts also have been going through immense suffering due to an acute shortage of food and pure drinking water.
A mother and son drowned in Jaintapur on Tuesday.
Jaintapur police station Officer in Charge (OC) Golam Dastagir said the deceased were identified as Nazmunnesa, 50, and her 14-year-old son Rahman Mia.
Besides, another person named Biplob Mia, 45, of Tahirpur village in Sunamganj, died on Tuesday.
A critically injured Biplob died when he was taken to a private hospital in Sylhet for treatment at 9am.
He was one of the six injured who were trying to reach the flood victims by helicopter.
Emdadur Rahman Milad, a journalist from Bishwanath, said that so far five people have died and one child has gone missing in the flood waters in their upazila.
On Friday afternoon, the wife of Jamal Uddin of in Rampasha Union was returning home by boat from the Upazila Heath Complex with her one-year-old daughter when the boat sank and the child got separated from her mother.
Shamim, a resident of Khajanchi Union of the same Bishwanath upazila, on Friday drowned on his way home and went missing.
Later on Sunday afternoon, his body was found floating in the Mirergaon village on the banks of the local Surma river.
On the same afternoon, Anik Das alias Mohan Das, 20, son of Amar Chandra Das of Chandragram village in Khajanchi Union, went missing in front of the mosque in the village near his house on his way to Sylhet.
His body was found on Sunday afternoon.
Sisters–Lima Begum, 35, and Sima Begum, 25–of Baishghar village in Dashghar Union, went missing after their boat sank in a canal near their house on Friday afternoon. Their bodies were found later that day.
Altabur Rahman, 45, son of Yasin Ali of Singraoli village in the upazila, drowned on the same day.
Abdur Rahman, a resident of Dhamalipara in Sylhet city and uncle of the deceased Lima and Sima, was on a boat that sank on his way back from after attending in Bishwanath upazila.
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On the other hand, a traffic constable named Abul Kashem drowned in the flood waters at Dowarabazar in Sunamganj.
He went to there on Thursday to attend the funeral of one of his relatives.
Meanwhile, Faisal Ahmed, son of Suruj Ali of Narainpur village in Kanaighat village, drowned in flood waters.
OC Tajul Islam said the Faisal was reported as missing after being struck by lightning.
They found out that the young man had died on Sunday.
According to reports from Shantiganj, two persons went missing in the flood waters of Sadarpur upazila.
Their bodies were found floating in the local hills on Monday.
They were identified as Lubna Khatun, 18, of of Raniganj village and 32 year old old son of late Jafor Ali and Lubna’s brother-in-law.
The boat Lubna’s brother-in-law was on sank on the way to her rescue from the waterlogged condition.
OC Md Khaleduzzaman confirmed the rescue of the two bodies.
Jagannathpur-based journalist Amit Dev said the body of a fruit trader named Anhar Mia, 30, was recovered on Monday.
On Saturday, he fell off a boat on flood waters and disappeared.
As there have been no place for burying bodies in many places of the upazila, bodies were seen floating in the haor.