More people marooned as flood engulfs new areas

Flood situation worsened in northern areas of the country as a number of places of Bogra, Jamalpur and Gaibandha districts went under water due mainly to onrush of upstream waters.
A good number of people have been confined to their homesteads for nearly a week. Some made high platforms with bamboos and logs in their flooded rooms, our correspondents reported.
Water has reached to waist-level from knee-deep at some places.
Many families at Sariyakandi and Sonatala upazilas in Bogra were found cooking foods on rafts made with banana plants while others went to safer places with their belongings, rowing rafts and boats, our Bogra correspondent reported.
Education at schools in different flood affected areas is being hampered badly for the past one month as the school compound and its adjacent areas remain waterlogged for days together. Several thousand aman farmers have also been also affected by the recent heavy rain and flood in the different districts. They are facing uncertainty because of lack of saplings for replanting in their fields. Many flood affected farmers are searching for saplings for replanting aman in their affected fields but they are not available.
Our correspondents in Manikganj, Rajbari and Faridpur reported that the flood situations in their respective areas remained almost unchanged on Saturday.
The flood forecasting and warning centre of Bangladesh Water Development Board on Saturday morning said water level of Brahmaputra-Jamuna river systems was increasing and might start falling in the next 72 hours. However, flows of the Padma would keep on rising for two more days.
The FFWC forecasted that the overall flood situation in places of Gaibandha, Jamalpur, Bogra, Sirajganj, Manikganj, Rajbari, Munshiganj and Shariatpur districts might slightly deteriorate.
Swapna Begum of Khatiamari of Sonatala said she, like many others in her locality, had been sleeping on higher structures and cooking on rafts made with banana plants.
She said that they were cooking once a day and passing their days half-fed and were in desperate need of food and safe water.
Our Correspondent of Jamalpur reported that flood situation worsened in all seven upazilas in the district as banks of Jamuna busted and water was flowing 13 centimeters above the danger level, till Saturday morning.
New Age correspondent of Kurigram reported that flood situations remained unchanged in all the nine upazilas in the district. However some portions of flood control embankment on Berubari-Kumedpur connecting road under Nageswari upazila disappeared in the water on Saturday.

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