Floods have hit more than 280-kilometre road in several parts of Bangladesh, also snapping rail communication between Sarishabari and Jamalpur, officials said.
Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has estimated a loss of over Tk 220 million due to damage of parts of 67 roads in 15 districts under its 11 divisions.
In the past 24 hours on Sunday, 138 kilometre roads were damaged due to the continuous rise in the water level of rivers, said an official.
The Bangladesh Railway (BR) has kept train communication on Jamalpur-Sarishabari route since Friday evening after floodwater inundated its track at Dewanganj bazaar.
Due to the overflowing Jamuna, the flood situation is unlikely to improve shortly, according to BR officials.
RHD monitoring cell said inundation of roads was reported from its 11 divisions since Sunday evening.
"Very few incidents of the washing out of roads were recorded. Floodwaters came close to the shoulders or inundated some parts of roads in different divisions," said an official in RHD's maintenance wing.
He, however, said the actual loss of the road network in floods could be assessed after the recession of water.
Due to coronavirus, BR officials said, most rail communications in Jamalpur-Sarishabari section have remained stopped.
Only a parcel train is now operating. It stops at Jamalpur to drop goods, they added.
A passenger train operating between Jamalpur and Dewanganj which now terminates at Islampur.
The officials said this rail section has also been affected in floods in the past two years.
RHD officials said as floodwaters continued to rise, divisional offices have been directed to take urgent measures to keep the road network operative.
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