Heavy and torrential rains since the day earlier than today morning (4 October) maintain inundated the principle roads and lanes in Chandpur city, inflicting suffering to commuters and disrupting fashioned lifestyles.
Locals the waterlogging modified into once created attributable to awful drainage, making it nearly no longer doable to switch.
Roads are devoid of vehicles, and of us are largely staying indoors until exclusively major.
Vikas Ghosh, a provider selling fermented milk drink near Court docket Spot are, expressed his frustration, announcing, “I maintain been here since 6am with my drinks, nonetheless by9 am, I maintain never equipped the rest. There don’t appear to be any of us around.”
Nearly all retailers within town, restaurants and vegetable markets remained closed. Major roads like Cumilla Street, Palpara, Alimpur, Kadamtala, and various other residential areas reminiscent of Rahmatpur, Chowdhuripara, Nazirpara, and others went under water.
Plenty of houses within the Fresh Market and Veteran Market areas maintain been submerged.
Shah Mohammad Shoaib, a meteorologist of the Chandpur Climate Place of job, acknowledged 277mm of rains maintain been recorded in 24 hours from 9am on Friday to 9am today (5 October), the second-perfect rainfall within the nation this year.
A supervisor at Chandpur Commence Ghat, Ali Asgar acknowledged there maintain been very few of us on a Dhaka-sure launch attributable to fallacious weather.
There maintain been few passengers on buses, acknowledged Shafiq Bhuiyan and Kamal Patwari, bus house owners of Chandpur bus end.
