More than half a million people remained marooned in Sylhet until Sunday, 12 days after the north-eastern region were hit by a flash flood induced by the rain triggered by cyclonic storm Remal.
The flash flood had affected over one million people of 850 villages at 12 upazilas out of 13 in the district and 30 Wards out of 42 in the divisional city. Almost half of the people are still water-logged, visited by bouts of flooding.
On Saturday night, most of the streets in Sylhet city along with houses went under water for the second time in a week and only two days after the city鈥檚 low-lying areas surfaced with the recession of floodwater.聽
A bulletin issued by Sylhet deputy commissioner Sheikh Resell Hasan on Saturday night said that 5,01,386 people have remained marooned at different unions of 12 upazilas in the district because the floodwater was receding slowly.
It also added that 440 affected people were still in the flood shelters. Among them, 362 were in the shelter centres installed at the Jakiganj, 48 at Beanibazar, 18 at Golapganj, 10 at Goainghat and 2 people in the flood shelter centre at Jaintapur upazila, according to the statement.
Jakiganj upazila administration鈥檚 project implementation officer told 抖阴精品 that the people, who were staying in the flood shelter centres, usually go their homes in the morning to repair or reconstruct their houses that had been damaged after being inundated by the floodwater.
鈥楾hey, however, return in the late afternoon or in the evening everyday to the flood shelter centres,鈥� he said.
More than fifty per cent of the residents of Sylhet city experienced severe water stagnation caused by torrential rains on Saturday night.
Many dwelling houses at Kajal Shah, Mirza Jangal, Dariyapara, Kewapara, Sagardighir Par, Munshipara, Mirer Maidan, Dargah Mahalla, Subid Bazar, Jalalabad, Taltala, Kazirbazar, Topkhana, Sobhanighat, Zatarpur, Sonarpara, Bagbari, Shahjalal Upa-Shahar, Terorata, Machhimpur聽 and Chharar Par area in the city were flooded as the rainwater collected in the city because of poor drainage system, local people said.
The Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital was also affected by the water-logging.
鈥楾he ground floor of my house went under knee-high water after only a two-hour rain,鈥� alleged businessman Farhan Hossain, a resident of the city鈥檚 Kewapara.
Assistant meteorologist Shah Mohammed Sajib Hossain of the Sylhet divisional meteorological office told 抖阴精品 that 220 millimetre rainfall was recorded in three hours between 9:00pm and 12:00 noon on Saturday.
鈥業t鈥檚 a record amount of rainfall in the region within a span of three hours,鈥� he added.
The water cleared by morning.
According to the Sylhet office of the Water Development Board, the River Kushiyara was flowing 54 centimetres above the danger mark at Fenchuganj at 3:00pm Sunday. The Kushiyara swelled by 5cm at the point since Saturday afternoon.
Earlier on June 2, low-lying areas of 30 Wards out of 42 in the city had been submerged after the water of recent flash flood entered the city overflowing the banks of the Surma, marooning around one lakh citizens.