Shadesh desk: At least 4,000 people remained stranded in four villages of Lalmonirhat as the River Dharla kept swelling after sweeping away a part of the road that connected the villages with Lalmonirhat Sadar.

The flood situation in the northern district is expected to turn worse as heavy rains were forecast there by Met Offices of both Bangladesh and India.

The New Age correspondent in Lalmonirhat reported that the River Dharla rose by 10 cm over the last 24 hours till Thursday afternoon.

He reported that about 120 metres of the road at Wapda Bazar in Kulaghat were washed away by the river on Wednesday evening after its water level surged because of a sudden onrush of water from the upstream.

The destruction of the road left four thousand people in Shiber Kuthi, Dharmopal, Boalmari, and Char Kharua villages totally isolated.

The situation turned worse with three days of incessant showers till Thursday, reported the correspondent.

Amena Begum, a housewife at Char Kharua, said that she was almost out of her rice stock and saw no hope of seeing the destroyed road repaired anytime soon.

‘God knows what awaits us,’ she said.

Meanwhile, the water levels in the country’s most major rivers are rising.

Bangladesh’s Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre issued a flash flood alert for places in Sunmaganj and Sylhet districts largely because of heavy rains forecast in upstream Assam and Meghalaya over the next 24 hours.

An FFWC special bulletin issued at around 2:30 pm on Thursday also predicted heavy rains in the northern and northeastern Bangladesh over the next 48 hours.

The rains coupled with the onrush of water from the upstream are likely to swell the rivers Surma, Kushiyara, Kangsha, Sarigowain, Someshwari, Bhugai and Jadukata running through the northeastern haor belt of the country, the special bulletin said.

The Surma and Jalukhali rivers were flowing 16 cm and 1.3 metre respectively above the danger level, according to the FFWC river monitoring report released on Thursday afternoon.

Over the 24 hours ending at 9:00am Thursday, the FFWC recorded the country’s highest rainfall of 347 mm at Moheshkhola in Sylhet.

Another 23 FFWC rainfall monitoring stations recorded heavy rains in the northern and northeastern Bangladesh during the same period.

Many of the northeastern areas received more than 100 mm rainfalls.

The Indian Met Office recorded 292 mm rains at Cherapunji during the same period.

As many as 66 of the 94 FFWC river monitoring stations reported rapid swelling of rivers over the 24 hours ending at 9:00am Thursday.

The Bangladesh Met Office said that the monsoon became fairly active over Bangladesh and the heat wave sweeping over Khulna and Rajshahi might abate in the next 24 hours till 9:00am Friday.