Wearing an outfit as red as the Krishnachura bloom in her hand, a girl walks beside the lake at capital’s Chandrima Udyan yesterday. Strolling barefoot in the pouring rain with freshly-picked flowers in her hand, the scene could be straight out of a movie, but the mask on her face is a reminder of the reality we live in. The photo was taken yesterday. Photo: Rashed Shumon
Children splash into Mahesh Khal in Agrabad residential area of Chattogram city. After days of rain last week, the canal swelled up. The children could not resist the temptation of cooling of the in the water as the weather was hot and humid in the afternoon. Photo: Rajib Raihan
Passersby on Zia Sarani in the capital’s Shanir Akhra help a rickshaw-puller retrieve his vehicle after it fell into Kutubkhali canal. A portion of the culvert over the canal collpased about eight months ago, narrowing it to such an extent that two vehicles can hardly pass at a time. The photo was taken yesterday. Photo: Amran Hossain
DNCC officials visited neighbourhoods yesterday to make people aware of dengue and Aedes mosquitoes. Photo: Anisur Rahman
A health official showing residents of the capital’s Mirpur-2 the larvae of Aedes mosquitoes in the water collected from inside a discarded tyre, Photo: Anisur Rahman
