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Fresh areas flooded in 15 dists

STAFF CORRESPONDENT
With the Brahmatputra, Ganges and Teesta still in spate, flood situation in 15 districts deteriorated yesterday, submerging houses and crop lands in fresh areas.
The districts are Panchagarh, Nilphamari, Lalmonirhat, Rangpur, Kurigram, Gaibandha, Bogra, Jamalpur, Sirajganj, Pabna, Tangail, Manikganj, Munshiganj, Rajbari and Madaripur.
Two persons drowned and one was missing in Lalmonirhat as a boat capsized in the swelling Teesta and two children died of water-borne diseases.
Swirling waters form the Teesta have inundated rail tracts at some places in Lalmonirhat and made Teesta railway bridge vulnerable with Water Development Board officials sounding a red alert.
The Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre said yesterday the Brahmaputra-Jamuna and the Teesta registered further rise at all points and crossed danger level at many points.
The Ganges-Padma also recorded rise at all points and most of the rivers in these two basins also rose. Rivers in the Meghna and the South Eastern Hill basins registered both rise and fall.
Out of 85 monitoring stations on the rivers, 43 points recorded rise and 23 recorded fall. Water level crossed red mark at 18 points. Our Lalmonirhat correspondent reported railway communication was disrupted as flood water was flowing over Teesta railway bridge and rail tract was damaged at some points.
Thousands of marooned people have taken shelter on rail track and on high lands.
Two persons, who drowned in a boat capsized near Char Gorok
Mandal on Wednesday night, were identified as Malek, 30 and Bador Ali, 25. Another, Jobayer Khan, 35, was missing.
At least 2,000 tube wells in the district have gone under water, causing scarcity of drinking water. Diarrhoea and other water-borne diseases have broken out in many areas, leaving two children dead and over 100 attacked.
Our Nilphamari correspondent reports: Gushing water from the upstream caused a breach in a dam on the Teesta at Kaliganj under Dimla upazila.
WDB officials feared the dam might give way, affecting seven unions.
Our Gaibandha correspondent said fresh areas went under water, affecting about 1,50,000 people.
Flood control embankment at Khalshi along the Karotoa river under Gobindaganj upazila was washed partly.
Gaibandha-Fulchhari road may be inundated any time and Fulchhri upazila offce complex is about to be eroded by the Brahamputra.
Reports of deterioration of flood situation were also received from our correspondents in Rangpur, Pabna, Manikganj,Rajbari, Mymensingh.
Flood situation in Narayanganj, Narsingdi and Kishoreganj are likely to remain unchanged. The situation in the Meghna basin may improve further.