Dyke Collapse in Satkhira
10 Aila-hit villages flooded again
Situation worsens in Gaibandha
Submerged houses at flood-hit Putimari village under Chilmari upazila of Kurigram district, right, floodwater overflows a road at Kalasonar Char of Fazlupur union under Fulchhari upazila in Gaibandha yesterday.Photo: STAR
At least 10 Aila-hit villages were flooded on Monday following dyke collapse in Satkhira while the flood situation in Gaibandha deteriorated yesterday. At least 10 villages in Padmapukur union under Shymnagar upazila were inundated again due to breach in the embankment on the river Kabodak on Monday, reports our Satkhira correspondent. About 50 yards of the embankment at three points near the houses of Daud Moral, Shafi Master and Dhali Bari at village Padmapukur went into the river due to heavy pressure of water during high tide. While filing this report, the villagers were trying to reconstruct the damaged portion of the embankment on self-help basis braving heavy pressure of water. The affected villages are Padmapukur, Pakhimara, Baintala, Khutikata, Kamalkati, Chaulkhola, Jhhapa, Kedar Bazar, Patakhali and Sonakhali in the union. The Aila affected people who took shelter on the embankment since cyclone Aila hit the area on May 25 last year, had returned to their villages but most of those villages have been flooded again. Over 8,000 people of almost all the villages in Padmapukur union were marooned and compelled to take shelter on high lands due to the latest flood. Contacted, Chairman Amjadul Islam of Padmapukur union parishad (UP) said local people had reconstructed six and a half kilometer embankment from Khutikata to Padmapukur soon after the cyclone. He said the WDB authorities took up projects to repair the embankment at a cost of Taka 2 crore 10 lakh but did not repair the major breaches at the worst affected Padmapukur union. In Gaibandha, flood situation deteriorated further as about 30,000 people in different shoal areas of Jamuna and Teesta basins have been marooned, reports our correspondent. According to Water Development Board (WDB) water level in all the rivers in the region swelled further. At least 20 unions in Jamuna basin have been flooded due to onrush water from upstream. Most of the dwelling huts and aman crops in shoal areas have been submerged by knee to waist deep water. The affected villagers left the areas for safe shelter through rescue boats arranged by local NGOs.
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