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The death toll has risen to 52 in 11 districts due to ongoing floods in the country. There are 39 men, 6 women and 7 children among them. As of Wednesday, the death toll was 31.<\/p>\n
KM Ali Reza, Additional Secretary of the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief, gave this information in a press briefing on the ongoing flood situation on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Out of 52 people, 14 died in Comilla, 17 in Feni, 6 in Chittagong, 1 in Khagrachari, 8 in Noakhali, 1 in Brahmanbaria, 1 in Laxmipur, 3 in Cox’s Bazar and one in Moulvibazar. Additional Secretary said that one person is missing in Moulvibazar.<\/p>\n
KM Ali Reza said, according to today’s information received from Sylhet district, the flood situation has improved overall. 68 upazilas were flooded and 492 affected unions or municipalities. A total of 10 lakh 72 thousand 579 families have become watertight in 11 districts. The number of affected people is 54 lakh 80 thousand 463 people.<\/p>\n
He said that a total of 3,403 shelters have been opened to provide shelter to water-bound and affected people. A total of 5 lakh 2 thousand 501 people and 36 thousand 448 cattle have been sheltered in the shelters.<\/p>\n
A total of 595 medical teams are operational to provide medical care to the victims of 11 districts, said the Additional Secretary.<\/p>\n
Stating that the distribution of relief from all levels, including public and private, is continuing in the flood-affected areas, he said that a total of one lakh 4 thousand 100 packets of dry food, clothes and water collected by the coordinators of the anti-discrimination student movement have been sent to the flood-affected areas through the Directorate of Disaster Management. Continuous communication between the Directorate of Disaster Management and the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement continues.<\/p>\n
He said that mobile and telephone communication has been restored in the flood-affected districts. All concerned have been asked to take necessary steps to prevent outbreak of water borne diseases after flood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Photo-collected. Morningsun Online \/\/ The death toll has risen to 52 in 11 districts due to ongoing floods in the country. There are 39 men, 6 women and 7 children among them. As of Wednesday, the death toll was 31. KM Ali Reza, Additional Secretary of the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief, gave this information in a press briefing on the ongoing flood situation on Thursday. Out of 52 people, 14 died in Comilla, 17 in Feni, 6 in Chittagong, 1 in Khagrachari, 8 in Noakhali, 1 in Brahmanbaria,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":740,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions\/740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}