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Flooding in north unchanged

OUR CORRESPONDENT, Gaibandha
Overall flood situation in badly affected Gobindaganj and Palshbari upazilas is still grave as the Karotoa river was flowing much above the danger mark yesterday.
With the floodwaters rolling down eastward, fresh areas of Gaibandha Sadar and Shagahata upazilas were submerged affecting standing Aman crops on vast tracts of land.
Ten thousand more people of Badiakhali,Chalk Baral, Goalbari, Taluk Refayetpur and Sukandighi villages
under Gaibandha Sadar upazila have been marooned by floodwater.
Medical services at Gobindaganj health complex, which is still under waist deep water, are yet to be resumed and most of the patients left the complex.
Fresh cracks have developed at different points along the Karotoa flood control embankment. Over 3,000 flood-affected people are now staying on the embankment under the open sky.
Scarcity of food, drinking water
and essential drug is prevailing in the affected areas.
Upazila administration sources said they could not reach the remote battered areas for providing relief materials for want of adequate water transport.
Meanwhile, Masud, 8, and Ratna, 6, of village Haripur under Gaibandha Sadar upazila died of diarrhoea while 55 others have been attacked with the disease.
There is no sign of early restoration of road communication between Gobindaganj and Dinajpur.
Our Rangpur correspondent adds: This week's untimely flash flood in Badarganj, Pirganj and Mithapukur upazilas has added to the sufferings of about one lakh monga-ridden people who are now crying for food, pure drinking water, shelter and medicine.
At least 10,000 vulnerable families of three upazilas were rendered homeless as their mud houses collapsed in the flood. Many of them are now passing days under the open sky while others have taken shelter in schools, madrasas and colleges.
District administration sources said 50 thousand people in the three upazilas were badly affected in the flash flood but records by different organisations put the possible number at more than two lakh.
Fifty tonnes of rice and Tk 15,000 were distributed among the flood affected extremely poor families in three upazilas while the demand is several times more, sources in the district relief office said.
The affected people of different areas complained that they are passing days half-fed or unfed but no government relief reached them.
With the receding of water, many families began to return home from the temporary flood shelters in Badarganj, but many others, unable to mend their collapsed mud houses, have to remain there.
A number of families of Modhupur who took shelter at Modhupur Primary School building said they did not leave the school as their mud hous