Rain paralyses two cities

(Clockwise from top left) Rain-drenched crows yesterday perched on a bamboo bar at Suhrawardy Udyan in the city while incessant rain continued for the last few days; vehicles move slowly across knee-deep water in city's Shantinagar; commuters on a rickshaw van crossing the pool of rainwater at Mouchak; an unlucky rickshaw passenger finds himself soaking as a wheel of the vehicle got caught in a manhole, flipping it on its side at Mouchak; cars wade through a flooded Mouchak road; an elderly carries on buying vegetables at semi-sunken Shantinagar bazar; life at the port city of Chittagong also slowed due to heavy downpour as men pull a goods-laden cart through a swamped Khatunganj road; and a sinking rickshaw van over Firingibazaar Ferryghat road. Photo: Shawkat Jamil, Amran Hossain, Rashed Shumon, Anurup Kanti Das, Palash Khan