Incessant downpour for the past 24 hours till 12pm on Tuesday inundated many parts of Feni town, causing immense suffering of residents.

The district recorded this season’s highest 347 millimeters of rainfall during the period, triggering fears of flooding.

Many areas of the town went under knee to waist-deep water, submerging ground floors of houses and forcing school closures.

Amid the inclement weather, some students had to sat for their scheduled exams by wading through floodwaters or taking rickshaws.

Major roads including Shahid Shahidullah Kaiser Road, Rampur Shaheen Academy, Pathan Bari, Nazir Road, and PetroBangla area were severely waterlogged.

Shops were inundated and many vehicles went out of order after water entered their engines, leaving commuters stranded since morning.

Waist-deep water was seen on several stretches of Shahid Shahidullah Kaiser Road this noon.

Expressing fear over another flood this year, Mymuna Tania, a housewife of Chanmia Munshi Bari Masjid area of the city, shared a video on her personal Facebook account showing a road by her residence completely inundated.

 “Too much rain! exactly it happened during the 2024 flood. May Allah stand by us,” she wrote as the caption of the video.

Five Feni villages innundated after collapse of flood embankments amid heavy rain

In Fulgazi upazila, parts of a dam along the Muhuri River collapsed due to heavy downpours, damaging nearby shops.

Vehicular movement on the Nilakhsmhi-Gabtala Road remained halted.

Md Abul Kashem, sub-divisional engineer of the Water Development Board in Feni, said the water level in the Muhuri River remains below the danger mark, warning that upstream water could worsen the situation.

“We are on high alert to prevent further riverbanks erosion,” he said.

Meanwhile, power supply has been disrupted in most areas of Feni town since Tuesday morning.

Acting meteorological officer of the district Md Mojibur Rahman said that rains are likely to continue over the next two to three days.