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Death toll rises to 27

Flood engulfs more areas
Overnight rainfall almost all over the country deteriorated the overall flood situation Friday.
More areas of Dhaka. NarayanganJ. ManikganJ. Pabna and Bogru districts went under water while situation remained unchanged in Kurlgram. Galbandtia. Sherpur. Strajganj. Madarlpur Tangail. Netrakona and Farid pur districts. Waters receded slightly in Jamalpur district.
The death toll shot up to 27 with 10 reported from Kurlgram and 2 from Gaibandha. The 10 deaths in Kurlgram were during the last few days of flooding, but reported Friday.
The Flood Forecasting and
Warning Centre tn the capital Friday said more area* in Jamalpur. Sherpur. Netrakona. Mymenalngh and Tangatl might go under water. The centre, however, hoped the situation might improve slowly tn parts of the Brahmaputra basin
At least 3.3S lakh people have remained marooned, over 30 lakh affected and countless others rendered homeless by monsoon flood
The two-weeks of flooding have turned vast landscape in the 13 districts into sheets of waters pushing the weary and hapless people to embankments, railway trace and other higher places, huddling in dirt and threatened with diarrhoeal
diseases
Paucity of drinking water have posed serious problem to them, who have no alternative but to depend on doles of relief from government or by charity which is scarce.
Meanwhile, rains and upstream waters have Inundated areas of Bhasantak, Kalshl. Adabor and Kalyanpur anew and more areas of Kamranglrchar. Jatrabart. Badda. Gulshan. Manlknagar. Mohakhall. Rampur* and Mirpur tn and around Dhaka city. People, mainly destitutes have been forced to leave homes and take shelter In public places like Kamalapur railway station and footpaths Flood forecasting centre said the Burtganga remained steady Friday but may rise today
Manlkganj control room said the flood situation in Daulalpur upazlla deteriorated due to incessant rain. About 25 thousand people are now marooned. Crops of 1500 acres land were damaged The other affected upas lias arc Hari Rampur. Shlbaloy and Ohior
Ftve tons of rice. 20 bags of chira and ten thousand taka was distributed among the flood victims
In Pabna. new areas in Bera and Fridpur upazilas were In undated 60 thousand people were affected In Bera alone and thousands of people have taken shelter on WAPDA em bahkments. Sujanagar. Chandmahan and Bhangura upazilas are worst affected. One lakh taka and 10 metric tons of rice have so far been given as relief
The overall flood situation tn the district has deteriorated further with the Inundation of two more unions of Sadar upazlla over the last two days.
About two lakh people of Dhunat and Sharlakandl upazl-las were rendered homeless by the onslaught of the flood since its Inception two weeks ago
The rivers Jamuna and Bangalee passing through the district are still flowing two and one centimetres above the danger levels respectively.
According to district ad ministration. 30 unions of six upazilas of the district have been affected by the floods. Diarrhoea and other waterborne diseases have aggravated the situation further.
The flood hit people took shelter on flood control embankments and other makeshift places and have been passing their days without food, drinking water and medicare facilities.
Local people have urged the authorities to supply relief materials including life saving drugs to the marooned people immediately.
All the nine upazilas of the -district are flooded affecting over 70 thousand people, 40 thousand homeless. Chilmari upazlla is the worst affected upazlla. Crops of 36 thousand acres of land were fully damaged and 18 thousand acres partly damaged in the upazilas.
The rivers Tlsta, Brahmaputra and Dharla are now flowing slightly below the danger level.
In Gaibanda, situation in Sadar, Fulchharl, Gaghata and SundarganJ upazilas remained unchanged where about 1.5 lakh people are marooned. Fulchharl is the worst affected.
Only 86 mounds of chira and ten tons of rice were distributed. Two persons died in snake bite in the district
Overall flood situation In Jamalpur district improved a little. River Jamuna and Brahmaputra were still flowing above danger level at DewanganJ MadarganJ upazlla is the worst hit. A special food distribution centre has been set up in Madarcuii.
Situation In Sribardi. Sadar and Nakla upazilas In Sherpur district remained unchanged. Over 1.40 lakh people are marooned. Crops of over six thousand acres of land were totally damaged while over seven thousand acres partly damaged. Over ftve hundred houses were washed away In flood water damaging another four thousand houses.
Thirty five thousand Taka and some 20 metric tons of rice and wheat were dis trlbuted.
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