Shawdesh Desk:

The death toll in the ongoing flood across Bangladesh reached 71 as eight more deaths were recorded on Tuesday, as per the disaster management and relief ministry.

A daily flood situation report issued by the ministry on the day also showed that the number of marooned families in the 11 affected districts stood at 5.82 lakh.

Feni recorded the highest 28 deaths, Cumilla recorded 19 deaths, Noakhali 11 deaths, Chattogram six, Cox’s Bazar three, and Khagrachhari, Brahmanbaria, Lakshmipur and Moulvibazar one death each. One remained missing in Moulvibazar.

Of the deceased, 45 were men, 19 were children and seven were women.

Around 2.84 lakh people are still living in 3,612 flood shelters in the affected districts of eastern, south-eastern and north-eastern Bangladesh.

Flood-affected people stranded in remote localities desperately wait for relief and medical support amid a situation of complete breakdown of communications system.

The flood has left a trail of destruction in agricultural fields and fish farms, households, highways and roads, educational institutions and other infrastructure in these districts.

The number of diarrhoea patients is soaring in the flood-affected Feni and Noakhali districts amid a crisis of hospital beds and lack of safe drinking water as the floodwater is receding.