Floods

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Flood claims 5 in Gaibandha, worsens in Sirajganj, Netrakona, Natoreस्त

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Our Roving Correspondent Anwar Ali reported from Sirajganj that floodwater was approaching Sirajganj town as more areas of the Sadar upazila went under water following breach in the main flood control dam at Meghai on Friday।
Sixty-four out of 83 unions in the district have been inundated, 11 in Kajipur upazila being the worst hit.
This year flooding started early due to rain in Bangladesh and melting of Himalayan ice, Mojibur Rahman, executive engineer of Sirajganj Water Development Board (WDB) told this correspondent on Tuesday.
Flood usually starts in the northern region from mid-July, he said.
About ten kilometers of the Kajipur-Sirajganj highway, built during late 90s at a cost of about Tk 500 crore, is now under water.
The WDB is dumping sandbags to protect the highway. But their 'untimely work' will be a futile effort, local people said. An amount of Tk 25 was spent to protect the highway but it was simply wastage because work is not done in proper time, sources said.
The authorities stopped plying of heavy vehicles on the road.
In Kazipur, nearly two lakh people have been affected, 50,000 of them marooned. About 2000 families have become homeless due to erosion by river.
This correspondent visited the worst affected Shubhagachha, Ratankandi and Gandhail unions in an engine boat.
People have moved to safer places.
Hundreds of people who took shelter at the three storied Shubhagachha College are facing acute crisis of food and drinking water.


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NAOGAON
The flood situation in Naogaon deteriorated. The Water Development Board explained that the fresh floods came as waters of the main rivers entered some tributaries in Naogaon in a downstream recession, said our roving correspondent.
The flood control embankment of Pachupur in Atrai upazila in Naogaon broke at Ujanpara point on Wednesday, inundating eight villages and affecting 300 families।


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Our roving correspondent from Sirajganj adds: Sixty-four of 83 unions in Sirajganj were submerged and all the 11 unions in Kazipur upazila were the worst affected।
Swirling floodwaters affected about two lakh people, making 2,000 families homeless.