Embankment washed away as Dharla bursts its banks
Staff Correspondent, Bogra
About one kilometre area of the 1.5km Dharla river flood control embankment was washed away at Charboraibari point in Sadar upazila of Kurigram district in last two days.Some 1,450 families were marooned as 10 villages including Laxmikanto, Charboraibari, Jogmoholer Char and Kaimboraibari were flooded. Fifty families lost their homesteads due to the river erosion, locals said. The floodwater also washed away a protection cover built to shield the 1.5km embankment that was built this year under a special project for town protection, Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) sources said. "We had taken all preventive measures to save the embankment but failed due to abnormal flow in the river," a BWDB official said. Dharla river was flowing only 24 centimetres below the danger level yesterday morning.
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