DHAKA, Jul 16 (NNN-BSS) – The overall flood situation in parts of Bangladesh, including north-eastern Sylhet region, has improved with water levels in many rivers receding.
According to a bulletin of the Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC), the major Brahmaputra-Jamuna rivers are in a falling trend, which may continue in the next 72 hours.
The overall flood situation in different low-lying areas of the north-eastern region of Bangladesh may further improve in 24 hours, commencing yesterday, it said.
During the same period, the flood situation in the country’s north-western region may also improve, it added.
Since June, the floods, triggered by heavy seasonal rains and an onrush of water from hills, have left a trail of misery and destruction in parts of Bangladesh, the north-eastern Sylhet region, to be more specific.
Devastating floods left large swaths of land in Bangladesh’s north-eastern Sylhet division underwater earlier this month, marking the third wave of flooding in less than a month in the region.
Sheikh Russel Hasan, deputy commissioner and district magistrate in Sylhet, said on July 3 that, more than one million people in the north-eastern Bangladesh districts, including Sylhet and nearby Sunamganj and Moulvibazar were stranded, due to extensive flooding after days of heavy rains.– NNN-BSS
