Agriculturist Aftab Ahmed, deputy director of Kurigram Department of Agricultural Extension confirmed that the district has experienced 145 mm rainfall which highest in last 10 years. He said the district may face huge agricultural losses due to the flood. Many areas have been inundated while many mud houses have been collapsed leaving thousands of people of 2,000 families marooned with immense sufferings. Underprivileged people are facing double the sufferings as they have remained unemployed amid the Covid-19 pandemic and now the flood. 20,000 people marooned in NilphamariAt least 20,000 people have been marooned and hundreds of government offices, hospitals, homesteads, croplands went underwater as the flood caused by the persistent rain engulfed the district.

Source: Dhaka Tribune September 27, 2020 13:07 UTC