OTHER BANGLADESH NEWSPAPER NEWS
Jamuna devours 450m Hard Point of Sirajganj town protection dam
Sirajganj, 25 July (UNB) - Jamuna devoured another 125-meter portion of Hard Point early Monday leaving the whole embankment on the verge of collapse and the town almost unprotected.
With this, 450 meters of Hard Point of the town protection embankment went into river bed in one week.
WDB and local sources said the Hard Point caved in thrice since last Monday (July 18).
They said 100m portion of the Hard Point in Old Jail area went into the bed of Jamuna River in the twinkling of an eye at 11pm Monday.
Another 200-meter Hard Point collapsed and vanished into riverbed on Saturday night and the latest breakdown took place a few minutes into the midnight of July 25.
Meanwhile, local administration, including Water Development Board asked town-dwellers to remain ultra alert, ready to face any eventuality following 125-meter Hard Point crash early Monday.
Earlier, Jamuna flew 9 meters above danger level at Sirajganj point inundating vast areas on its banks in scores of unions in five upazilas of the northern district on Sunday.
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