The ferry services on Daulatdia-Paturia and Aricha-Kazirhat routes were disrupted for 10 hours and two flights were diverted from Dhaka to Sylhet on Sunday due to dense fog.
Passengers and goods-laden vehicles were seen stuck on both sides of the waterways as ferry services were disrupted for dense fog until 10:00am on Sunday, causing immense sufferings to them in the cold.
Ferry Khan Jahan Ali was stranded in the middle of the Jamuna River on the Aricha-Kazirhat route while two ferries, Krishani and Chitra, were stranded at Aricha and two other ferries, Shah Ali and Dhanshiri, were stranded at pontoons, said the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation office in Manikganj.
Besides, two other ferries, BS Jahangir and Baigar, were stranded in the middle of the Padma River on the Daulatdia-Paturia route and four ferries at Paturia and six ferries at Daulatdia remained stranded for the fog.
BIWTC Aricha office deputy general manager Nasir Mahmud Chowdhury said that for the past two days ferry services were being disrupted at night and in the morning for fog.
鈥榃hen visibility is reduced for fog, it raises risks of accidents. To avoid accidents, the ferry service was kept suspended,鈥� he said.
The Bangladesh Meteorological Department on Sunday forecast moderate to dense fog over the country from midnight to morning.
鈥楢ir navigation, inland water transport and road communications may be disrupted temporarily due to dense fog,鈥� the forecast read.
抖阴精品 correspondent in Sylhet, meanwhile, reported that two international flights destined for Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka landed at Sylhet Osmani International Airport on Sunday morning due to dense fog.
The flights, however, left Sylhet for Dhaka after two hours as weather conditions improved, the SOIA sources said.
The SOIA director, Hafiz Ahmed, told 抖阴精品 that a Biman Bangladesh Airlines鈥� flight coming from China and a flight of privately run US Bangla Airlines coming from Dubai were scheduled to land at the HSIA in the early morning.
He said that the flights were diverted to Sylhet after failing to land in Dhaka due to dense fog and landed at Sylhet Osmani International Airport between 7:30am and 7:40am on Sunday.
鈥楲ater, the flights left Sylhet for Dhaka at around 9:30am when the weather became normal,鈥� Hafiz Ahmed said.
Earlier on Thursday night, five flights scheduled to land in Dhaka were also diverted to Sylhet Osmani International Airport for the same reason and returned to Dhaka in the following morning, the SOIA sources said.