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At least four people died amid flood in Nangalkot, Chuaddagram and Sardar upazilas of Cumilla on Monday to Wednesday.
The deceased were Keramat Ali, 45, a resident of Daudpur area under Nangalkot municipality, Rafi, 15, Chhatra area in Cumilla city, Soharab Hossain Sohag, a lawyer of Salauddin intersection of the Cumilla city and Shahadat Hossain, 34, an expatriate of Sonakatia Purbo Para in Chauddagram municipality.
Of them, Keramat was washed away by floodwater on Wednesday night while fishing. Local residents began searching for him after he went missing in the strong current.
His body was later found floating. He was taken to a hospital where physicians declared him dead.
Rafi was electrocuted when he came in contact with an electric pole amid rains on Wednesday afternoon, said Dr. Joybair Hossain of Cumilla General Hospital.
Shahadat Hossain died on Wednesday morning when a tree fell on him while he was fishing in floodwater.
On Monday afternoon, lawyer Soharab died after being electrocuted at Salahuddin intersection when he came in contact with an electric wire submerged in rainwater while returning home from a diagnostic center where he had taken his pregnant wife.
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