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Download PDF About 50,000 people remain marooned in four upazilas in Netrakona due to flash floods caused by heavy rain for the last three days.
Besides, road communications in several parts of the district are also disrupted due to heavy downpour.
The affected four upazilas are Durgapur, Kalmakanda, Mohanganj and Khaliajuri, Netrakona Water Development Board (WDB) sources said.
If it continues to rain, vast areas in Madan and Atpara upazilas might also go under water. Water levels of the districts’ four major rivers Someshwary, Mogra, Kongsha and Dhanu have registered a sharp rise.
Dhanu river was flowing above the danger mark and overflowed its bank at Naotana point of Khaliajuri upazila, sources said.
Many areas at Birishiri, Kakoyirgora, Gaokandia, and Bakoljura unions in Durgapur upazila, Lengura, Pogla and Koilati unions in Kalmakanda upazila have gone under four to six feet water.
Six-kilometre long Durgapur-Ranikong road linking Durgapur upazila with the border villages went under three to five feet water.
Floodwater has already damaged 80 percent of Aman seedlings, newly planted Aman crops and vegetables on vast tracts of land in the affected areas.
Road communications between Netrakona town and Durgapur upazila remained snapped as a portion of the road had been damaged near Janzail Bazar and Suknakuri at Durgapur upazila.
Besides, the roads linking Netrakona town to Kalmakanda and Khaliajuri upazilas went under water disrupting road communications between the three places.
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