Bangladesh: Over 20,000 flood-hit people celebrate Eid in Sylhet shelters

DHAKA, 12 July 2022, (TON): District Administration said “a total of 20,125 flood-hit people celebrated Eid at the at 269 shelters in Sylhet.”

According to sources “the flood water in the Surma basin has receded a lot but the water level in the Kushiyara basin is declining slowly.”

Therefore, the residents of Fenchuganj, Balaganj, South Surma and Beanibazar upazilas of Sylhet are in danger.

Sajjad Ali, 50, a resident of Shiorkhal Government Primary School shelter in Balaganj, said “they were somehow staying in the shelter for the past 20 days due to rising water in their houses.”

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