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Thousands wait for relief

Crisis of drinking water, medicine

By Staff Correspondent
Acute crisis of pure drinking water, medicine and lack of relief materials have added to the sufferings of the people in the flood-affected areas where diarrhoea has broken out, according to reports received in Dhaka last night.
Diarrhoea has so tar attacked 1000 people in Caibandha, 800 in Sirajganj and 60 in Sylhet.
A minor boy, Dunuj Ali of Bachamara village in Manik-ganj and Abdul Khahque, 45, of Kazirgaon village in Sylhet drowned in flood waters while Haicra 35, of flood-hit Shahpur village in Sylhet died of snake bite yesterday
The flood situation in Caibandha further deteriorated yesterday with two more unions in Saghata and Fulchari thanas going under water, Fresh areas were inundated in Manikganj but the overall situation in other affected districts continued to improve.
Meanwhile, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra at their upstream points and all rivers in the south eastern hill basin recorded fresh rise yesterday.
All rivers in the Meghna basin, however, marked fall, except the Someswari at Dur gapur, according to a bulletin of Flood Inhumation Centre.
Our Manikganj correspondent reports: Fresh areas in Shibalaya, Gheor and Sadar thanas were inundated as almost all the rivers in the district, including Dhaleswari, Kaliganga and Ichhamoti, registered rise in 24 hours till 6 pm yesterday.
However, the Jamuna recorded an eight-centimetre fall at Aricha during the pe-riod.
Official sources said the current spell of flood affected about one lakh people and damaged standing crops in at least 20,000 hectares in the district.
Another report from Gaibarldha said: Water levels of all the rivers in Gaibandha, including the Brahmaputra, registered further rise in 24 hours till 6 pm yesterday.
Acute crisis of pure water has been prevailing in the flood-ravaged areas where the people are suffering from sani-tation problem and lack of adequate relief materials.
Local MP Abdur Rashid Sarkar urged the government for more aid and succour for the people in distress.
According to official
sources, at least 72 educational institutions, 20 kilome tre roads and 14 culverts in four thanas have been damaged by the flood onslaughts.
District administration sources said they sent 4.5 metric tons of wheat and Tk 29,000 for Kamarjani, Mollar char and Gidari unions in Sadar thana through UP chairmen.
But the local people said the wheat was yet to be distributed among the flood victims.
Our Sirajganj correspondent reports: Communication between the district town and other parts of the country has been restored after reconstruction of the bailey bridge on the Sirajganj-Bogra highway.
District Flood Information Centre said yesterday the river Jamuna was flowing 33 centimetres below the danger mark. But the river erosion has taken an alarming proportion.
In the last 24 hours about 402 families of Soyadabad and Kachharbari of Sadar and ten villages of Kazipur thanas have been rendered homeless by the erosion. The flood has. also damaged 337 kilometres roads.