Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque, among others, at a press conference organised on the occasion of posthumous eye donation by Rotary Club of Dhaka at the Jatiya Press Club on Saturday. –

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Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque, among others, at a press conference organised on the occasion of posthumous eye donation by Rotary Club of Dhaka at the Jatiya Press Club on Saturday. ISPR photo

Embankments turn into shelters

Staff Reporter :The flood affected people are surviving fighting with hardship taking shelter on boats or on embankments for the last two weeks. Two women died of drowning in flood water at Islampur in Jamalpur and one child died at Rupganj in Narayanganj. At least 39 children died due to the flood at Jamalpur, Kurigram, Sirajganj and Gaibandha within a week. Among the dead, 36 children, aged between seven and eight, died of drowning in the flood water and three...

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