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Floods grip eight districts
By Staff Correspondent
The flood situation worsened yesterday in eight districts with fresh areas going under water due to incessarit rainfall over the last two days and rise in the water levels of major rivers, reports reaching the capital said. -
Road communication between the capital and the northern districts has been greatly disrupted as two olit of f6ur pontoons at the NagarbMri ferry ghat were inundated yesterday following sharp rise in the water level of the Jamuna.
Because of the downpour and onrush of waters from the upstream, more areas in Sylhet, Sirajganj, Lalmonirhat, Gaibandha, Manikganj, Feni, Netrokona and Khulna districts were inundated yesterday.
Our correspondent from Sylhet reports: Four thanas m the district — Gowainghat^ Kanaighat, Jaintapur and Companyganj — were flooded for the second time in the current rainy season due to heavy rainfall and onrush of Raters from hilly region# across the border. . '
According to news agency reports, two children drowned in flood waters ip Shahjadpur thana of Siragaqj district yesterday.The victims were identified as Rubel, 7, of Fakirpara and Zarina of Dhalaipara villages.
About 1.3 lakh people of some 400 villages of eight thanas in the district have been affected by the flood, reports add.
Meanwhile, our correspondent from other flood-hit districts reported that thousands of people were marooned while flood protection dams at the various places were washed away.
More than one lakh people were marooned and standing crops on 12,000 acres of land in five thanas of Lalmonirhat district were damaged in the flash flood. Flood waters washed away two km stretch of a flood control embank ment in Aditmari and Sadar thanas in this district.
Reports received in the capital said that at last 17 unions of four thanas of Gaibandha district went under flood waters as the rivers Bramhaputra and Ghagat were flowing above their respective danger levels.
Vast areas in Harirampur, Daulatpur and Shibalaya thanas of Manikganj district were Hooded with over 25,000 families badly affected and standing crops on 10,000 acres of land damaged.
Some 15,000 families were marooned in the district.
Fresh areas in 10 thanas of Netrokona district were inundated and over 200 houses in the low-lying areas of Netrokona town were submerged.
Four more unions in three thanas of Feni district were flooded yesterday as flood waters gushed through some breaches in Muhuri embankment.
Khulna city and its adjoining areas experienced heavy downpour yesterday morning.