Rains in hills swell rivers Cause landslide, flood

Heavy rains in the hills reinforced the waterfalls and swelled the rivers in Chittagong Hill Tracts and Mymensingh causing landslides and submerging croplands
Flood forecasters said Matamuhuri river in the CHT was flowing 91cm above danger mark at Lama and 73cm at Chiringa of Bandarban hill district.
Landslides killed 10 people in Bandarban Friday.
Rainwater coming down from hills across the border washed away parts of a river embankment and inundated villages in frontier upazila of Dhubaura of Mymensingh.
Met Office recorded 225mm rainfall on Friday, the second highest of the season. The capital was flooded by a record downpour of 333mm Monday overnight.
The Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre said major river systems of Brahmaputra-Jamuna and Ganges-Padma showed rising trend and would continue to swell for next three days.
Rivers continued to swell at 44 out of 73 monitoring stations across the country while at 24 stations they marked fall. At two points they were flowing above danger mark.
New Age correspondent in Mymensingh said seedbeds on vast tracts of land and many ponds went under water in seven villages of bordering upazila of Dhubaura due to strong current of water coming down from hills across the border which saw heavy rains for the past few days.
Villages in Gamaritala and Dakshin Maizpara unions were inundated as a dam at Kalsindur point on river Netai breached early Thursday.
‘Many houses might be washed away if the present trend continues,’ said Abdul Awal, the Dhubaura upazila nirbahi officer.
Aman paddy crop will face a serious blow as seedbeds on a vast area were damaged by water. Ponds and fish enclosures in the affected villages were flooded and washed away, causing huge loss to fish farmers, local sources said.
Upazila agriculture officer Fazlur Rahman told New Age Friday that he saw many seedbeds went gone under water and it would hamper aman cultivation.

Courtesy of NewAgebd