The water level of different rivers has risen steadily due to the heavy rainfall throughout the country over the past few days.
People in the flood affected areas are suffering due to the scarcity of food, potable water and necessary medicines. Many educational institutions have been closed down in those areas.
Our Gaibandha correspondent reports: Continuous rise in the water level in the Jamuna River augmented the hardships of the flood victims in the district.
The main flood controlling dam sank yesterday after 300ft of the embankment adjacent to the Wapda dam in Saghata upazila was washed away by the heavy currents in the Jamuna.
Saghata UP Chairman Mosharof Hossain said the water level was not yet high enough to spill over the dam, but if the dam gave in to the heavy current, the whole upazila would go under water. Some villages were already flooded in that upazila.
Executive Engineer of Water Development Board Abdul Aowal Miah said repair work on the damaged parts of the embankment was going on.
Nazmul Huda, executive officer of the Department of Relief and Rehabilitation in the district, said 90 tonnes of rice and Tk90,000 in cash had been distributed among the flood victims and more relief materials would be distributed today.
Our correspondent in Jamalpur reports that the flood situation in the district had worsened as the level of flood water rose further.
More than 100,000 people were marooned in Islampur, Dewanganj and Sarishabari upazilas of the district.
Houses and farmland in those upazilas were submerged over the last three days and people took shelter on embankments and in school buildings.
There was an acute scarcity of food and drinking water in the district.
Primary Education Officer Abdul Alim said 75 educational institutions in the district were closed down.
According to our Kurigram correspondent, the water in the Brahmaputra River was flowing 13cm above the danger level. New areas were flooded after the flood controlling dam caved in near Hatia union in Ulipur upazila.
Around 150,000 people were marooned due to the rise in the water level. Many of them were living on rafts.
The flood affected people in the area were in immediate need of food and water supplies. Many of them were passing days with little or no food, though District Magistrate ABM Azad claimed that distribution of 130 tonnes of rice had been started already.
Our Bogra correspondent reported that the flood situation in Sariakandi upazila of the district worsened due to the rise of the water level in the Jamuna.
Two drowned in flood water in the upazila. The deceased were a girl named Shikha, and a child aged one and a half months.
A 1,200m stretch of the embankment between Adbaria and Rouhadaha Bazar was damaged by flood water over the last few days. At least 10,000 people were marooned and 17 educational institutions were closed down in that area.
Meanwhile, students of Brahmanbaria Government College were suffering since different academic buildings and the college hostel of the institution were inundated, reports our Brahmanbaria correspondent.
The students complained that every year they suffered during the rainy season as the nearby ponds overflowed and flooded academic buildings and the college hostel, but the authorities concerned have remained indifferent.
Principal Professor Amritalal Saha said he had discussed the problem with the municipality mayor.
