The flood discipline in the nation’s northeastern district of Sherpur has worsened further as eight extra unions in Nakla and Sadar upazilas had been inundated.
The death toll from the flood in the district stood at five as the our bodies of two brothers, who went missing in the flood, had been retrieved in the Nannir Kutubakura house below Nalitabari upazila on Saturday (5 October) night.
Within the imply time, some two lakh other folks are stranded in the district’s Nalitabari, Jhenaigati, Sreebardi, Nakla, and Sadar upazilas.
The water in Bhogai River used to be flowing above the hazard stage at Nakugaon point of the district this morning (6 October).
Based totally on Roads and Highways Department sources, water is flowing over Nalitabari-Nakla road attributable to the upward thrust in the water stage in the low-lying areas.
Vehicular scurry on the Sherpur-Nalitabari road by Gazirkhamar has been suspended since Saturday attributable to flooding.
The RHD is making an strive to resume communication on the Nalitabari-Sherpur by Tinani road hasty by dumping sandbags on Sunday after a day of disruption attributable to floods in the Ranigaon house.
Sources mentioned upazila administrations of Naliatabari and Jhenaigati had been preparing a checklist of damages as hundreds of properties, constructions, and croplands had been broken and fish enclosures had been washed away, inflicting a indispensable quantity of loss.
D Sukolpa Das, deputy director of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) in the district, mentioned that aman paddy planted on 35,000 hectares of land and greens planted on 10,000 hectares of land had been broken.
He mentioned the extent of damages attributable to the flood will be obvious once the waters recede.
District Water Pattern’s Govt Engineer, Nakibuzzaman Khan, mentioned the flood discipline in the district will enhance by Monday (7 October) as water on your entire rivers will decrease.
Sherpur Deputy Commissioner Torofdar Mahmudur Rahman mentioned they’ve already distributed bags of reduction attend among the many flood-hit other folks, and rescue operations by the Military and Bangladesh Border Guard personnel are ongoing.
He mentioned work on preparing the checklist of flood victims is ongoing.
