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No end to sufferings of flood victims in Pabna

From Our Correspondent
PABNA. Aug 29: Thousands of flood affected people in the district were still found marooned as flood water still remained submerging huge areas. This correspondent visited the affected Faridpur thana of the district last Thursday to find out the latest situation there Following is a report sent to us yesterday.
Almost the entire area of Beel Chandak was found submerged in three to five feet deep water. Most of the thatched houses were found empty as the inhabitants left for safer shelter In the near by embankment On the embankment the picture was very chaotic as thousands of affected people gathered crowding the whole of the shelter on the embankment.
An old man. Ahmed Ali Mollah. In his late fifties of village Beel Chandak Under Pungull union of Faridpur thana said. I had four huts all of which were submerged. I had no alternative but to seek shelter here on this embankment. With my family members of four I have built a temporary home here. My sons, both married, earn on an average Tk 50 a day work Ing as boatmen. So far we received 10 kg of rice and another 10 kg of wheat as relief. This is obviously a very poor amount for my family of four. But I am not the only sufferer, my neighbours also suffer the same way. said Mollah.
T have no agricultural land. My sons earn too little. I can not afford to work. In this situation I am totally helpless I don t know what am I going to do after the flood water recedes." says Mollah in a gloomy mood.
Mollahs wife asked, showing her widowed daughter. what would happen to my daughter now. How would she maintain her life as she has no work My daughter used to work as a weaver. She was paid on - no work no pay.
Nafura Khatun. age 41. another flood victim informed this correspondent that she did not receive any relief material so far. She has been on this embankment since last 15 days. She cooks one meal a day to feed herself and her young son. The rest of the day she goes to beg for food leaving her Only son under someone else s c care. "My husband used to send me money from Chittagong working there as a day labourer. Following the flood
I have no contact with him. So. I am virtually dependent on begging for food now
Abul Hossain. 52. faces similar situation living on the temporary shelter on the embankment He said, I came to this embankment few weeks back following the devastating flood I used to work as a day labourer in my village Dighalia. But flood has suspended my source of in come On an average 1 used to earn 80 taka a day. With four children still depending on me and of course, my I can hardly imagine surviving the rest of the days ahead My family did not receive any re lief yet. God knows how will I and my family survive
Tomen Ali of Dutta Punguli village used to work as a day labourer Following the flood he and his family of nine
members came to take shelter here on the embankment. With no job Ali said, we hardly enjoy a meal a day. We virtually starved first lews until my eldest son managed to get some relief. I have never faced this situation before, said Ali adding. Flood hit us twice this year destroying the entire standing crop I.. .uiagc. Many of my colleagues suffer the same way. No one came to help us. we are simply on our own battling this uncertain war.
Amena Khatun in her thirties was found working in her thatched house inundated In knee deep water. Her husband works In a nearby handloom factory earning between Tk 40 and 50 a day. Amena's husband now has no work as the factory area too was inundated. Amena’s family now survives on a very tight ration of relief goods. .
There Is no end to the sufferings of the refugees. The flood victims would not be able to return to their damaged homes until at least 20 days. But when they return they would require necessary house building rfiaterl-als prices of which reportedly marked a sharp rise very recently. At the same time prices of grains have shot up in the district as supply was poor.
In the meantime, agency reports say water bourne diseases have broken out in many affected area, particularly in the areas where there were no arrangements for supply of drinking water. But there were no report on attack of any particular diseases like diarrhoea and dysentery. It would be very difficult to rehabilitate the victims as grains, house building materials and other essentials were scarce in the district;