[ noun ] an Asian river; flows into the Bay of Bengal <noun.object>
The small Bengali-language Khabar newspaper said a boat carrying 100 flood refugees sank Wednesday in the Brahmaputra River 70 miles north of Dhaka and all aboard were feared drowned.
Torrential rains have pushed the Ganges, Brahmaputra and scores of other rivers over their banks.
The Brahmaputra dropped 8 inches at some stations since Sunday. The smaller Buriganga, which has flooded about half of Dhaka, dropped 2 inches during the same period.
The three mightiest rivers that run through the country to the Bay of Bengal are the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna.
Thousands of people in Sylhet and the neighboring Sunamganj district have fled their homes in the past week because of floods along the Brahmaputra River and its tributaries.
The waters subsided but rose to new heights Aug. 27 as heavy rains in neighboring India and Nepal washed down from the Himalayan mountains into the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers, which run through Bangladesh to the Bay of Bengal.