Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre on Saturday said the flood situation in Sylhet, Sunamganj and other districts may further deteriorate in next two days.

According to a bulletin of the Flood Forecasting and Warning Center (FFWC) of BWDB, there is a possibility of medium to heavy rainfall at some places of the country’s northern and northeastern regions along with adjoining states of Assam, Meghalaya and Sub-Himalayan West Bengal of India in the next 72 hours

As a result, the Brahmaputra, Jamuna, Teesta, Dharla, Dudhkumar and other major rivers may continue rising in the next 48 hours.Flood situation deteriorated during the last 24 hours ending at 9.00 am on Saturday inundating fresh low-lying and char areas due to monsoon rain and onrushing water from upstream in the Brahmaputra basin.

Officials of Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) said water levels of major rivers marked further rise and were flowing above danger level at eight points of Kurigram, Jamalpur, Bogura and Sirajganj districts in the basin at 9.00 am on Saturday.

The Dudhkumar was flowing 23cm above danger mark (DM) at Pateshwari while Dharla 22cm at Kurigram, Brahmaputra 70cm at Hatia and 5cm at Chilmari in Kurigram district and 16cm above DM at Fulchhari points in Gaibandha districts this morning.