Floods cause damage to roads in Sunamganj, Sylhet districts

SYLHET. MAY 26: The recent floods have caused damage to many roads in Sylhet and Sunamganj districts, disrupting communication.
Additional Chief Engineer of the R&H, Sylhet zone, Fazle Rabbi, informed the divisional disaster management committee meeting that 10 roads in Sylhet and 6 in Sunamganj had been worst-hit by the floods. The road connecting Sheola-Sutarkandi LC station had been shut, he said. He requested all concerned not to ply heavily-loaded trucks on various roads for days as a cautionary measure.
Executive Engineer of the LGED Enamul Kabir said 277km of 120 roads had been badly damaged in Sylhet district.
Meanwhile, floods damaged roads in five upazilas in Sunamganj district. An important road between frontier upazilas Chhatak and Doarabazar had been snapped as a bridge had been damaged totally.
Besides, a total of 272km of roads in the district is now either collapsed, damaged or unfit for use as pot holes and ditches have been developed. The Ramnagar bridge on the Sunamganj-Doarabazar-Chhatak road had been washed away on May 17 snapping the road link of the vast areas of two upazilas with the district town.