5 more killed as landslides hit again
Five people, including four children, were killed in three landslides in Khagrachhari and Moulvibazar yesterday. Just last week more than 150 people were killed in landslides in five districts.
Our Khagrachhari correspondent reported that three children were killed in landslides in two different places in the district.
Sayed Mohammad Forhad, additional superintendent of Khagrachhari police, told The Daily Star that two brothers were killed in a landslide around 6:00am at Gudamchhara of Ramgarh, but other members of the family were safe.
The victims were Nur Hossain, 7, and his brother Nur Nabi, 13, sons of Mohammad Mostofa.
In another landslide, a child named Nipun Chakma, 7, son of Begobrata Chakma, was killed in Jatindra Karbari Para of Laxmichhari upazila.
Super Jyoti Chakma, chairman of Laxmichhari upazila, told this newspaper that Nipun died around 8:00am as a large chunk of mud fell on his house.
Rashedul Islam, deputy commissioner of Khagrachhari, said the district administration had earlier announced through loudspeakers that there was a possibility of landslides.
He said they called upon people to take shelter in safe places. A shelter centre opened in Shalbon area in the town and another in Manikchhari upazila. About 50 families took shelter in those centres.
In Moulvibazar, a woman and her daughter were killed in a landslide triggered by torrential rain in Dimai village of Barlekha upazila yesterday, reports our correspondent there.
Achhia Begum, 35, wife of late Abdus Sattar of Dimai, and her daughter Fahmida Begum, 13, were killed as a huge chunk of mud fell on their earthen house on a hill slope around 3:00am, said Sirajuddin, a member of Sadar union parishad.
After an hour of frantic efforts, locals pulled out the bodies of Achhia and her daughter, he said.
Shahidur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Barlekha Police Station, told this newspaper that Achhia's son survived the disaster as he was at a relative's house.
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