Published: 07:17 PM, 09 July 2017
Flood situation worsens in Bogra
About 50,000 people are marooned in Sariakandi upazila of the district as water level of the Jamuna River kept on rising due to heavy rainfall and onrush of water from the upstream.
The water level of the Jamuna increased by five centimetres in last 24 hours and now water is flowing 25 centimetres above the danger level, according to data of the Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB).
Sources at Sariakandi Upazila Project Implementation Office said about 50,000 people of 50 villages are marooned as the flood inundated fresh areas.
Besides, 51 primary schools and six secondary schools were inundated, hampering the academic activities of those schools.
Meanwhile, one primary school and a madrasha went under flood water due to riverbank erosion at Boirakandi union.
Flood water damaged crops of about 3,500 hectares of land, said officials of local Upazila Agricultural Extension Office.
Upazila Project Implementation Officer Sarwar Alam said they distributed 20 kg rice among 1000 flood-affected families and they have adequate stock of relief materials to face the flood situation.
