Public sufferings acute as downpour deluges Chandpur and Kurigram

People of Chandpur and Kurigram districts suffered severely as heavy rainfall continued the districts in the past 24 hours, report agencies.
In Chandpur, heavy and torrential rains since Friday morning have inundated the main roads and lanes in Chandpur town, causing suffering to commuters and disrupting normal life.
Locals the waterlogging was created due to faulty drainage, making it almost impossible to move.
Roads are devoid of vehicles, and people are largely staying indoors unless absolutely necessary.
Vikas Ghosh, a vendor selling fermented milk drink near Court Station are, expressed his frustration, saying, "I have been here since 6 am with my drinks, but by 9 am, I haven't sold anything. There are no people around."
Almost all shops in the city, restaurants and vegetable markets remained closed. Major roads like Cumilla Road, Palpara, Alimpur, Kadamtala, and several residential areas such as Rahmatpur, Chow-dhuripara, Nazir-para, and others went under water.
Several houses in the New Market and Old Market areas were submerged.
Shah Mohammad Shoaib, a meteorologist of the Chandpur Weather Office, said 277 mm of rains were recorded in 24 hours from 9am on Friday to 9am on Saturday, the second-highest rainfall in the country this year.
A supervisor at Chandpur Launch Ghat, Ali Asgar said there were very few people on a Dhaka-bound launch due to bad weather.
There were few passengers on buses, said Shafiq Bhuiyan and Kamal Patwari, bus owners of Chandpur bus stop.
In Kurigram, about 157mm rainfall was recorded in the district in the past 24 hours that caused huge public suffering especially to the lower income people as they could not go to works due to torrential rainfall.
Bangladesh Water Deve-lopment Board (BWDB) control room officials said they recorded 157mm rainfall in the last 24 hours till 3pm today and predicted that the rainfall may continue for several days.
While visiting the district town, it was observed that water logging plugged the town with knee level water due to heavy rainfall while most of the markets, shops and stores in the town were seen closed.
Movement of a few number of people were seen while day laborers and lower income people were affected mostly by the downpour as they could not go to work.
The BWDB officials said though water of rivers, including Dharla, Dudh-kumar and Brahmaputra, in the district are in increasing trend, there is no possibility of occurring floods this time.