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Flood victims face food, water crises

Star Report
The flood situation worsened further in Sirajganj, Bogra and Gaibandha districts but remained static in Kurigram yesterday.
Thousands of marooned people in the districts are suffering from shortage of shelter, drinking water and food.
However, the authorities said they were distributing relief materials, including rice, among the flood-affected people.
But the sufferers claimed that the relief materials were not sufficient for them as their houses were inundated or eroded by floodwaters caused by heavy downpour and flow of rainwater from upstream.
Abdul Wahab Master of Char Shitaijhar in Mogalbasha union of Kurigram said some portions of two houses in his village had collapsed due to heavy flow of floodwaters in the past few days, reports our
correspondent in Kurigram.
The families in the two houses are now passing their days in shortage of food and in fear of being washed way, he said, adding, “There is nothing left for them to cook, as their fuel wood became wet.”
In Kurigram, around 66,000 families became homeless in the last few days due to heavy flooding caused by rising water levels in the rivers Brahmaputra and Dharla.
The water in the rivers was flowing above the danger limit yesterday.
Shabjan Bewa, 65, who went to Mogalbasha of the district to receive relief materials yesterday, said, “The floodwaters washed away my house. I am now living at my neighbour' shouse."
The water in the river Jamuna was flowing 86 centimetres above the danger FROM PAGE 20 yesterday. The floodwaters overflowed most roads and flooded many villages in 26 unions of four upazilas in Gaibandha.
Around three lakh people remained marooned in different shoal areas of the district while gushing water eroded about 300 houses alongthe Jamuna basin, said our correspondent in Gaibandha.
Abdur Rashid Mia of Ujan Boorial village in Sundarganj, said “Water is everywhere. There is nothing left for us to cook. We are surviving on dried food for the last three days.”
Our correspondent in Sirajganj reports, strong current in Jamuna was hitting the hard point at the western
side of Sirajganj Town Protection Embankment, leavingitattheriskoferosion.
Concrete cement blocks and sand filled bags were being dumped at the hard point area, while a team of the army was deployed to supervise the protection work of the 2.5-kilometer embankment.
Water Development Board officials said they had detected the risky zones along the bank and were taking necessary steps for its protection.
A total of1,70,000people of 100 villages in Sirajganj got marooned, while about 15,000 people took shelter on the Brahmaputra Flood Control Embankment and other raised land. They were facing acute shortages of food
and pure drinkingwater.
The houses of over 50,000 people in Sariakandi of Bogra got inundated due to floodwaters. The water at Sariakandi point in the Jamuna was flowing 90 centimetres above the danger limit yesterday, our correspondent in Bogra reports.
The flood protection embankment at Panchbaria has become vulnerable due to the onrush of floodwaters.
Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre's Executive Engineer Amirul Hossain told The Daily Star that the flood situation in the north-ern region remained unchanged yesterday. The situation in the region will begin to improve from today.
Meanwhile, the flood
situation has improved in the Sylhet region, he added.
Food and Disaster Management Minister Abdur Razzaque yesterday directed officials concerned to ensure the supply of emergency humanitarian assistance aid to the flood-affected people.
The government has allocatedTk51 lakh and 1,950 tonnes of rice for the flood-affected people in Kurigram, Gaibandha, Bogra, Sirajganj andJamalpurdistricts.
Meanwhile, the death toll in landslides, lightning and drowning following heavy rainfall in Chittagong, Cox's Bazar, Bandarban and Sylhet districts rose to 122 till yesterday.
The container train service between Dhaka and Chittagong resumed yester-