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Fog, cold hold country

All communications, life disrupted; Met forecasts cold wave

Star report
A blanket of fog covering the country yesterday caused disruptions to movement of all modes of transport and brought misery to thousands of passengers.
The situation was die worst on Mawa-Kaorakandi and Paturia-Doulatdia ferry routes, with 12 ferries carrying around 200 vehicles were forced to halt for about 10 hours in the river due to dense fog.
About 1,500 vehicles including buses, trucks, cars and microbuses remained stranded at Paturia, Doulatdia and Mawa ferry terminals for the whole night as ferry services were suspended due to poor visibility.
Besides, about 50 vessels including launches with as many as 10,000 passengers were stuck at different points of Meghna and Padma rivers Wednesday night.
Dense fog also disrupted flights at Zia International Airport in Dhaka and Shah Amanat Airport in Chittagong on Wednesday and yesterday. As a result, flight schedules of at least 11 aircraft to and from both the airports were deferred for two to 11 hours, Biman Bangladesh Airlines sources said.
"One hajj flight of the national flag carrier had to be diverted to Kolkata on its way to Zia International Airport due to poor visibility this morning (yesterday)," an official of flight operations, Biman, toldThe Daily Star.
A meteorologist of Dhaka Met Office told The Daily Star that the weather started deteriorating from Wednesday night when dense fog hung over most places of die country.
"It was a mild to medium type dense fog that restricted visibility to less than 1,000 meters," said the meteorologist. The situation worsened
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at coastal belts, he added.
Meanwhile, Wednesday's lowest temperature was recorded at 11.2 degrees Celsius in Jessore while the highest was at 16.5 degrees Celsius in Dhaka.
Met Office sources suspected cold wave might hit different parts of the country in the middle ofDecember.
Sources said all kinds of watercraft including ferries on Mawa route and Daulatdia-Paturia route were stalled from 11:00pm on Wednesday to 9:00am on Thursday.
Of the 12 ferries, nine were forced to anchor at midstream on Mawa-Kaorakandi ferry route while two remained stuck on Paturia-Daulatdia route.
The hajj flight, BG0826, was supposed to land at ZIA around 10:20am but the aircraft was forced to land at Kolikata due to thick fog. The flight finally landed at ZIA at 3:00pm, Biman sources said.
Normalcy resumed after 11:00am, said the sources.
(Correspondents from Faridpur, Manikganj, Madaripur and Chandpur contributed to this report.!