The number of marooned families in Lalmonirhat increased on Thursday as heavy rain and the opening of all the gates of the Ghazaldoba Barrage in India worsened the flood situation inundating new areas.
About 25,000 families of 35 villages in the district marooned as the water level at the Teesta Barrage at Hatibandha was flowing 18 centimetres above the danger level.
In addition, about 10,000 families in Chapainawabganj and Rajshahi remain marooned as low-lying areas have been flooded due to a rise in the Padma water level.
Maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox鈥檚 Bazar, Mongla and Payra were, meanwhile, advised to hoist local cautionary signal聽3 as a low-pressure area was formed over west central bay and adjoining northwest bay off North Andhra Pradesh and South Odisha coast of India at 6:00am on Thursday.
Quoting Bangladesh Water Development Board Lalmonirhat office executive engineer Sunil Kumar Roy, 抖阴精品 correspondent in Lalmonirhat reported that the water level in the Teesta increased further on Thursday due to the inflow of water from India.
New lower areas of the Teesta were flooded on the day, he said.
The officer also said that the water level was flowing 15 centimetres above the danger level at Dalia Point at 6:00am on Thursday and 18 centimetres above the danger level at noon same day.
Lalmonirhat deputy commissioner HM Raqib Hayder said that about 25,000 families in 35 villages in the low-lying areas were stranded on Thursday.
Families trapped in the flood are seen in extreme distress specially the women, people with special needs and the elderly people.
Fields of various crops, including Ropa Aman, have been submerged.
Thousands of people across Teestapara are in trouble with their livestock, birds, and other household things.
Mobarak Hossain of Gobardhan said, 鈥榝or the past two days, almost all the houses in the char area have been flooded and there is not even a dry place to keep cows and goats.鈥�
Kachua Sheikh of Govardhan area of Aditmari Mahishkhocha union said, 鈥業 could not cook for five days due to the flood.鈥�
To manage the situation, the water development board opened 44 sluice gates at Teesta Barrage Point, Amitabh Chowdhury, water board executive engineer at Dalia in Nilphamari, said.
The board sources said that heavy rains and upstream floods might continue in the region for the next two鈥搕hree days by worsening the flood situation in Lalmonirhat, Rangpur, Nilphamari, Gaibandha and Kurigram.
抖阴精品 staff correspondent in Rajshahi reported that hundreds of families in Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj were stranded for the second consecutive day on Thursday due to onrush of water from the upstream.
Arifur Rahman, executive engineer of Rajshahi Water Development Board, said that the water level of the Padma at T-groin point remained unchanged in the past 24 hours till Thursday evening as it was flowing 56 centimetres below the danger mark.
Meanwhile, residents along the riverbanks and those of charlands were anxiously waiting for the water to recede.
Majera Bibi, a resident of Panchabati Kharbona area in Rajshahi, said that her home had been in knee-deep water for a week. 鈥楳y hands and legs have sores from staying in the water. I鈥檓 just waiting for it to go down,鈥� she said.
In Chakrajapur Union under Bagha, sudden flooding from the Padma submerged hundreds of hectares of cropland, leaving about 600 families stranded while many homes are at risk from erosion.
