In Titab Khan village alone, 30 families, including Ismail Hussain, Rasool, Mustaq, Kadimal, Hasan Ali, Yusuf, Dulal, Abdur Rahim, Balo, Kacho Mamud Momin and Harun, were buried in the river gorge. Including the number of families in four other villages, this figure will be 50.
Locals said Teesta river is swallowing up hundreds of acres of crops and trees in Titabkhan, Gatiasham villages of Ghariyaldanga union and Chatura, Ramhari and Kalirhat villages of Bidyanand union.
Many of them are living under the open sky.
Meanwhile, thousands of houses in five villages of Bidyananda and Ghariyaldanga unions of the upazila, Kalirhat Bazar, Burirhat Bazar, Kalirhat Government Primary School, Titabkhan Government Primary School, four Titabkhan Government Primary Schools, Gatisham Community Clinic and four mosques, two temples, various structures And hundreds of acres of cropland are facing the threat of erosion.