Published: 11:42 AM, 16 August 2017
Flood claims 4 more lives in Dinajpur
Countrywide death toll reaches 33, four more people, including two children, lost their lives in Chirirbandar upazila of Dinajpur on Tuesday, raising the death toll from the floods all over the country to 33.
District administration control room relief and rehabilitation officer Mokhlesur Rahman told UNB that Rina Akter, 10, daughter of Iman Ali of Nanderai village, Arafat, 7, son of Aminul Islam of Uttar Para village, Fajir Uddin, 60, son of Shamsher Ali of Usufpur union drowned in floodwaters.
On the other hand, Majeda Begum, 65, wife of late Hafiz Uddin of Amorpur union was killed in wall collapse due to flood.
With this, 17 died in Dinajpur while nine in Lalmonirhat, three in Nilphamari, two in Thakurgaon and one each in Netrakona and Sirajganj.
