Around 15 villages are feared to be flooded as a part of the Muhuri river flood dyke has got breached at the Uttar Sripur village point of Fulgazi upazila in Feni.
Among the villages are Uttar Sripur, Goshaipur, Shaldhar, Nilakkhi, Bijoypur, Darbarpur of the upazila.
Locals said there had been a strong flow of water in the frontier river for a few days due to heavy rains and onrush of water from Indian hills, leading to the dyke’s 30-feet breach.
They said two villages, including Uttar Sripur, had already been affected by the dyke breach as home yards and roads went under knee-deep water.
People there were moving to and fro, wading through water.
The locals feared that the breach might get bigger if it was not repaired immediately, causing a major flood in the upazila, but authorities were yet to come up with any initiative to repair it.
Feni Water Development Board Executive Engineer Ramzan Ali said they had written to the higher authorities of the breach and hoped it would be repaired very soon.
