DWOHA CHOWDHURY and MD AMINUL ISLAM

Hundreds of haor farmers in Sunamganj, Netrakona and Kishoreganj are left distraught after about 700 hectares of paddy fields became inundated in the last four days.

About 200 hectares of Boro paddy fields are submerged in Sunamganj’s Tanguar Haor after the Nazarkhali levee broke due to a sudden rise in water level.

As much as 548 mm of rainfall was recorded in India’s Meghalaya in the last two days, which caused the water level in Sunamganj rivers to soar two metres in two days, according to the Bangladesh Water Development Board in Sunamganj.

The sudden rise in water level triggered the early flash flood in the haor.

“We are in fear of losing our harvest if the water level keeps rising this way,” said Sajidur Rahman, a farmer of Golabari village in the Tanguar Haor area.

As the Nazarkhali levee was not properly reconstructed, it posed a serious threat to all the harvest of two unions in the upazila, said Saidur Rahman, former chairman of Bangshikunda Dakshin union parishad in Madhyanagar upazila.