Chittagong tragedy
Shatabdi Biswas, Officer's Quarter, Regional Public Administration Training Center (RPATC), Rajsh
The disaster that struck Chittagong was really unprecedented. The landslide caused by heavy downpour took the lives of many living on the nearby hilly areas. Everything was just buried under the sea of mud, although volunteers, fire fighters and the common people tried hard to dig the inhabitants out of the heavy chunk of mud but all they could get were dead bodies and nothing else. At least 123 lives were snuffed out. Regrettably, it was a man-made disaster. Some unscrupulous people have razed lots of hills and they planned to make high-rise buildings upon those places, not caring about the fact that the cutting down of hills makes the soil level weak and torrential rain will cause the mud to slide off, sweeping away everything in its path. The caretaker government should now give compensation to the helpless residents and arrange for their rehabilitation. The hill gobblers should not be allowed to go unpunished.
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