100 shrimp enclosures washed away, 500 families marooned

Over 500 families have been marooned and hundreds of acres of paddy field and around 100 shrimp enclosures washed away following the sudden embankment collapse on the Shibsha River in Dakope upazila under the district on Tuesday morning, said local public representatives. 

Several families have taken shelter in other villages as their houses went under water. 

Three villages under Dakope upazila have been flooded and a 100-metre area of Nolian Bazar has gone under water, said upazila parishad Chairman Sheikh Abul Hossain. 

Several people including Upendra Nath Mistri, Kamola Rani, Panchanan Mondal, Govinda Mistri, Krishna Pada Mondal and their families have taken shelter on Wapda embankment as their houses have been flooded. 

Md Firoj Ahmed, assistant engineer of Water Development Board, said the Nolion Bazar protection embankment does not come within the jurisdiction of WDB. 

Local UP members Masum Ali Fakir and Aboni Baidya have engaged hundreds of workers for repairing the embankment but the work is being hampered due to strong current and tidal surge. 

Upazila parishad Chairman Sheikh Abul Hossain said he had talked to a few high officials of the government authorities concerned for repair of the embankment.