The flood situation has worsened in Moulvibazar and Sylhet districts as many lands, roads and markets have gone under water due to overflow of major rivers Surma-Kushiayara, Manu and Khowai in the county’s Eastern Regions. Over two lakh people in Moulvibazar town were marooned and many of them were panicked as the town protection embankment was broken. Floodwaters inundated roads, central areas of the towns and damaged shops and other domestic animals of the districts, according to Water Development Board officials. The Surma-Kushiayara rivers at Zakiganj, Sheola, Kanaighat points in Sylhet and Manu in Moulvibazar point were flowing above the danger marks, according to the Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre. FFWC forecaster Sardar Uday Raihan told New Age that the floodwaters caused by the onrush of water from upstream India and heavy monsoon would soon start receding in Sylhet and Moulvibazar. The FFWC said in a bulletin issued at 9:00am on Monday that in the next 24 hours the flood situation in Moulvibazar district might improve while the flood situation in Sylhet might remain steady. The Brahmaputra-Jamuna and the Ganges-Padma rivers were showing rising trends while Brahmaputra-Jamuna and the Ganges-Padma rivers might continue rising in the next 48 hours from Monday morning, it said. New Age correspondent in Moulvibazar reported that over two lakh people were marooned by floodwaters as at least 30 unions of the district were inundated and at least 25 points of Manu and Dhulai rivers were broken by floodwaters. Borohat area, the central point of the district town, went under water engulfing 25 localities and damaging 300 shops in the town. Deputy commissioner Tofael Islam said that they had distributed 800 tonnes of rice, 5,000 packets of dry foods and cash worth Tk 10 lakh. We have enough relief goods,’ the DC assured. Incessant rains for the last few days coupled with the onrush of hilly water have marooned lakhs of people of at least 90 villages in three upazilas Kamalganj, Kulaura and Rajnagar. Thousands of people in the areas were facing acute shortages of food and pure drinking water while schools, colleges, madrassahs, mosques, temples, croplands and fish farms went under water. The flood-hit people were passing days under the open sky amid acute crisis of food, water and medicine, reported New Age correspondent at Itarghat under Kulaura upazila. Bangladesh Army personnel started to provide assistance to the flood affected residents of Kulaura. Three units of the army were reported to start providing supports to the people of four unions of the upazila on Saturday morning after Eid-ul-Fitr prayers were performed.