DHAKA, 02 September 2021, (TON): Around 30 percent of the country's area is set to be inundated as the water level of the Jamuna and Padma is forecast to continue rising over the next three days.

The Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC) said “the overall flood situation will worsen in 11 districts -- Kurigram, Gaibandha, Jamalpur, Bogura, Tangail, Sirajganj, Pabna, Tangail, Manikganj, Faridpur and Shariatpur -- by today morning.”

"The water level will increase for the next three days and by then around 30 percent of the country would be flooded," Arifuzzaman Bhuiyan, executive engineer of FFWC flood forecasting and warning centre, told The Daily Star.

Structures of a house being moved elsewhere on a boat as Padma erosion has taken a serious turn in Munshiganj’s Tongibari upazila. Photo: Mostafa Shabuj, Palash Khan.

The FFWC bulletin said “of 109 water measuring points in different rivers, water is flowing above the danger level at 16 points while water levels at another 50 points are increasing.”

Our correspondents from the flood affected districts reported that people of those districts have been forced to leave their homes due to their houses being flooded and a lack of food and drinking water. A few lakh people are enduring hardships in those districts, they said.

In Kurigram, around 50,000 flood victims on the banks of the Brahmaputra, Dharla and Dudhkumar rivers are facing crises of food and pure drinking water.