Record rainfall paralyses life, businesses in city

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Some Siddeswari Girls' School students are gleefully wading through the knee-deep water to attend classes in the city's Shantinagar intersection area Sunday as city's most of the roads got inundated due to daylong rain. —FE Photo

FE Report
Torrential downpour throughout the country during the last two days inundated low lying city areas and halted usual business activities causing untold sufferings to the people in the capital.
Most of the city roads and streets were submerged due to incessant rainfall, that also created heavy traffic jams and forced retailers to keep their shutters down.
Major roads in the city's Motijheel, Mirpur, Old Dhaka, Mohakhali, Sayedabad, Jatrabari, Shahbagh, Paltan, Malibagh, Shantinagar, Rampura and Mohammadpur areas have gone unde