Moulvibazar flood: 2 missing found dead

Body of two victims among three, who went missing yesterday in deteriorating flood situation in Moulvibazar, were recovered from a river in the area today, police said.

Of the two, one was identified as Abdus Sattar while identities and further details of the rest victims could be known immediately, Muktadir Hossain, officer in-charge of Kamalganj Police Station, told our local correspondent.

The incessant downpour for the last few days coupled with onrush on hilly water has marooned lakhs of people of at least 90 villages in three upazilas—Kamalganj, Kulaura and Rajnagar upazilas of the districts.

The hilly water has damaged flood protection embankments in the district worsening the flood situation alarmingly.

Thousands of people in the area are facing acute food and pure drinking water scarcity while schools, colleges, madrasas, mosques, temples, crops land and fish farms went under water due to the huge flood of the Munsori and Dholai rivers in the area.

The flood-hit people are passing the days under the open sky amid acute crisis of foods, water and medicine, our correspondent reports from Itarghat, Kulaura upazila.