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Amphan ravages Khulna coastline


Published : 21 May 2020 10:35 PM | Updated : 07 Sep 2020 07:43 PM

Thousands of mud and semi-finished houses in Khulna have been destroyed by the cyclone Amphan. Starting from Khulna metropolis, houses of different villages of Koira, Dakop, Paikgachha, Batiaghata, Dumuria upazila have been destroyed and about half a lakh people have become homeless. 

The dam has broken and the crops of the land have been submerged. The upazila administration is working to determine the amount of damage. However, no casualties were reported in Khulna.

Meanwhile, embankments at 7 points in 5 unions of Upazila Koira have been breached and water has entered 30 villages, flooding fish farms, crop fields, cattle farms and homesteads. The damage was caused when the water level of the river rose by about 5 feet due to a severe cyclone after 11 pm on Wednesday.

While inspecting the eroded area on Thursday morning, local MP Alhaj Akhtaruzzaman Babu said that thousands of hectares of crops had been submerged in the river due to the collapse of 7 dams. Village after village is floating in salt water. Hundreds of homes were destroyed. Thousands of trees have collapsed, electricity poles have been uprooted. The damage was so great that officials struggled to figure it out.

He said if the broken dam was not repaired quickly, the salt water would be a long-term danger. The MPs were accompanied by Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Helal Hossain, Upazila Chairman SM Shafiqul Islam, Upazila Executive Officer Shimul Kumar Saha and Assistant Commissioner (Land) Nur E Alam Siddiqui.

Meanwhile, the embankment of Dakop Upazila was saved but more than a thousand houses were destroyed. Two and a half kilometers of roads have been damaged. Vegetable crops of 575 hectares of land have been damaged and more than five hundred trees have been uprooted. Outside Wapda, 100 hectares of shrimp farms has been flooded.