Rainfall that continued for the fourth consecutive day on Wednesday increased the height of most of the rivers, with some spilling over inundating vast tract of low-lying areas and causing flash floods.
The flood forecasting and warning centre of the Bangladesh Water Development Board said that river height was monitored at 73 water level stations and 53 marked a rise and only 14 registered a fall in 24 hours till 6:00am on Wednesday.
Eight rivers including the Padma were flowing above danger mark, the centre added.
Significant rainfall recorded during 24 hours till 6:00am on Wednesday was 210 millimetres at Bogra, 192mm at Chandpur, 131.2mm at Jariajanjail, 187.7mm at Teknaf, 124.2mm at Sirajganj, 161mm at Cox's Bazar, 110mm at Rajshahi, 157.7mm at Mymensingh, 154mm at Bandarban, 104mm at Dhaka, 148mm at Bhairab Bazar, 141mm at Gaibandha and 103mm at Lama.
The Met Office in Dhaka said that the overall situation might improve in a couple of days.
The flood forecasting and warning centre said that the Padma had an increase by two centimetres at Goalanda and by five centimetres at Bhagyakul and was flowing 11cm and 40cm above danger mark at the points.
The Kobadak registered a 13cm rise on Tuesday and was flowing 25cm above flood mark at Jhikargacha on Wednesday morning.
The Tongi Khal swelled by 20 cm and was flowing 2cm above danger level at Tongi, the centre said.
The River Arialkhan was also flowing 2cm above danger level at Madaripur.
The River Bhugai at Nakuagaon and the River Kangsa at Jariajanjail were also flowing 40cm and 13cm above danger level on Wednesday morning.
The hilly river Matamuhuri was flowing 96cm and 127cm above flood level at Lama and Chiringa, causing flash floods in the low-lying areas along its banks.
The River Shangu registered an abrupt rise by 560cm in 24 hours at Bandarban and was flowing 125cm above flood level at 6:00am Wednesday.
The Ganges and the Padma are likely to rise while the Meghna will remain steady, the flood forecasting centre said on Wednesday evening.
The New Age correspondent in Manikganj said that the Padma, the Jamuna and the Dhaleswari, in full spate, eroded vast areas in 25 villages of eight unions at Harirampur, Daulatpur, Shivalaya and Ghior, rendering at least 700 families homeless in seven days.
Forty rooms of the Mailagi government shelter project at Ghior have been washed away by the Dhaleswari while the rests 40 rooms were also under threat.
The tin-shed rooms were given to eighty homeless families by the government in 2007.
the local administration in the past year tried to save the rooms from being eroded by putting bamboo fence but they could not be saved, said Abdul Halim, who lived in the project area and became homeless again.
More than 400 houses of 18 villages of Daulatpur have been eroded by the River Jamuna, local leaders and administration said.
The upazila nirbahi officer, Khodeza Khatun, said that a list of 158 erosion-hit families of Bachamara had been prepared.
The Bachamara union council chairman, Abdur Rashid Sarkar, however, said that at least 200 houses of the union had been washed away by the river.
At Harirampur, about 100 houses of Dhulsura union have been washed away by the River Padma.
At Shibalaya, the Jamuna also affected many areas such as Zafarganj Bazar which is about to be completely eroded.
The correspondent in Noakhali said that incessant rainfall during a few days and the Meghna spilling over in some places had affected low-lying areas in seven coastal upazilas in the district.
Flood and rain water have inundated standing crops on huge low-lying areas of Hatiya, Subarnachar, Companyganj, sadar, Chatkhil, Senbagh and Kabirhat.
A large number of houses, educational institutions, fishing farms and roads have been damaged, local people said.
Amir Hossain, deputy director of the district agricultural extension department, told New Age that rain water had inundated standing crops of nearly 5,000 acres of land and seedbeds on 150 acres of land.
The correspondent in Rajshahi said that rainfall had completely paralysed life in the city and had inundated low-lying areas such as Chhoto Bangram, Mollapara, Dingadoba, Mushrail, Sapura, Tikapara, Sirail, Baliapukur and Machuapara.
Inclement weather severely affected the people of low-income groups such as day-labourers who were left without work.
The correspondent in Cox's Bazar said that Al-Mohaymin Himel, a Class VIII student of Korak Bidyapith at Chakaria, was electrocuted.
The correspondent in Gazipur said that a wall had collapsed during rainfall in which 56-year-old Halima Begum was killed and four others were injured at Mouchak of Kaliakair in the district on Tuesday night.
The injured have been admitted to Enam Medical College Hospital at Savar.
Source : New Age
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