Many of city's streets turned into virtually canals following overnight torrential rain causing severe traffic jams, and untold sufferings to the city residents.
Most of the streets in the Motijheel, Shantinagar, Razarbagh, Malibagh, Moghbazar, Kakrail, Paltan, Gulshan, Karwan Bazar, Dhanmondi, Mirpur, Shewrapara, Mohammadpur, Shyamoli and old Dhaka went under knee-deep water.
A number of motor vehicles, mostly auto-rickshaws and private cars, were seen stranded on the roads as their engines went out of order for playing through water.
Md Rafiqul Haque, a resident of Nawabpur said, traffic system virtually collapsed because of water-logging in different parts of old Dhaka's Dholaikhal, Nawabpur, Nazirabazar, Bangshal and Chankharpool.
"Water logging in many parts of the city takes place, even in moderate rainfall because of the existing unplanned and bad drainage system," he said.
Many of the city's streets were unfit to traffic for heavy rain that continued from Saturday night to yesterday noon.
Roads in different areas of Motijheel went under two feet water. Rickshaws and CNG auto-rickshaws refused to go there, Habibur Rahman, a resident of Arambagh said.
Fatema Khatun, an internee doctor from Avoy Das Lane at Tikatuli said, she stayed at her home finding no transport.
Rezaul Karim, a motorcyclist who started for Farmgate from Matuail said it took one hour on Sunday against normal half an hour to reach his destination. Mobarak Hossain, a public bus driver said it took two and a half hours to reach motijheel from Mirpur.
Kabir Alauddin, a resident at Mirpur, said, the streets in his area go under water whenever it rains.
The Met office said the downpour would continue one more day because of the depression in the Bay of Bengal. The Met office recorded 122 millimeters of rain in the last 24 hours until 6am Sunday in the capital.
Water was cleared from the roads by the Sunday afternoon and normal traffic brgan.