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The flood situation across the country continued to improve on Thursday as all rivers except Kushiyara and Titas were flowing below the danger mark on the day.
Floodwaters from northern and north-eastern and central regions were also receding the same day, giving those marooned some room to return home from shelters.
However, farmlands and homesteads will take a few more days for full recession of water if the present climatic conditions persist.
Meanwhile, the flood forecasting and warning centre in its Thursday evening update said all the major rivers were ebbing.
But the Kushiyara in Moulvibazar and the Titas in Brahmanbaria were flowing 9.0-16 centimetre above the danger level the same day.
Seventy-three rivers continued to recede, even if waters in 18 rivers were showing a rising trend.
Moheshkhali and Sylhet witnessed the highest 171 milimetres and 51 milimetres of rain respectively in the past 24 hours.
The Met office in its 24-hour forecast said moderate-to-heavy rain was likely to occur in many places of Khulna, Barishal, Dhaka and Chattogram divisions.
Rain may fall in a few places in Rajshahi, Rangpur, Mymensingh and Sylhet divisions, it predicted.
Monsoon was fairly active over Bangladesh and moderate over the North Bay, according to weathermen.
The Indian Met office in its three-day forecast said heavy-to-very heavy rainfall was likely to occur in different states, including Assam, Meghalaya and Tripura, adjacent to Bangladesh.
The local health emergency operation centre and control room in its Thursday report said the death toll from flooding in 28 districts remained static at 119.
But it said the number of diarrhoea patients was increasing as 386 people were caught by the water-borne disease in the past 24 hours.
A total of 7,243 people have so far been struck down with diarrhoea in the three-and-half-week floods, according to the control room.
As many as 6.07 million people have been marooned, 0.75 million lost everything and 0.15 million hectares of croplands were totally damaged.
The devastating floods mainly started from July 10.
More than half the population of the districts like Jamalpur, Kurigram, Gaibandha and Sunamganj became waterlogged for heavy rain and upstream water.