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We said a voluntary organisation provided the food. He would take those to his village, Alamnagar with the help of the army. "Of the nearly 500 families in our village, 20 have taken shelter on the first floor of the local orphanage. Everyone took as much rice and food as they could. Now, we don't have any more food," said Sahab Uddin. He said that apart from these 100 packets , no other food help has reached the orphanage. Many people in the village have taken shelter in primary schools there. But he doesn't know the situation there. Meanwhile, there is still water on both sides of Sylhet-Sunamganj highway. Every house is still under water. People have taken shelter along the road with cattle. According to the Sunamganj office of the Department of Agricultural Extension, this time Boro paddy has been planted on 2,22,605 hectares of land in the district. Paddy production target has been set at 13,50,220 tonnes. As many as 4,900 hectares of crops in different haors have been submerged in the district till Friday evening. The highest crop loss was in Dirai as paddy of 3500 hectares of land in this upazila has been submerged in water. Besides, 965 hectares in Dharmapasha, 200 hectares in Shalla, 100 hectares in Sadar upazila, 20 hectares in Doarabazar upazila, 85 hectares in Tahirpur and 30 hectares in Chhatak upazila have been submerged. Bimal Chandra Som, deputy director of the Department of Agricultural Extension, Sunamganj, said water was entering the haor through broken dams in some places and overflowing in others. The rain has decreased for two days. And if it does not rain, there will be no major damage. Kasmir Reza, president of the Environment and Haor Development Organization, said, "As per our estimation, 6,500 hectares of crops have been submerged so far. A few more dams are at risk which may break down at any time." Local farmers said at least 10 more haors are at risk. Nalua Haor in Jagannathpur is the most vulnerable as at least seven dams have cracked since Monday. When the Bhurakhali dam of the Haor project-5 collapsed on Wednesday evening, the local farmers started repairing the dam voluntarily. On Friday also, farmers were seen working in the haor with bamboo to protect the dam. Zahirul Islam, president of the project implementation committee (PIC) of the dam, said, "I have worked on the dam as per the instructions of the Bangladesh Water Development Board. For this project, Tk15 lakh was allocated but so far I have received only Tk7 lakh. I have completed the construction with my money. There were no irregularities in the work of the dam."