Flash floods triggered by relentless monsoon rains and hill torrents have unleashed a deadly humanitarian crisis across Chattogram and its adjoining districts, leaving so far 43 dead, hundreds of thousands stranded, and vast swathes of homes and cropland under water.

Nearly 200,000 stranded in Chakaria, Pekua, Matamuhuri upazilas

Fish enclosures, salt farms blamed for slowing floodwater drainage

Selina Khatun has spent the past week under the open sky after the Jamuna swallowed her only homestead.

Three more children died in Chattogram and Cox’s Bazar yesterday as floods, fuelled by incessant rain and relentless hill torrents from upstream, continued to devastate lives and livelihoods across the Chattogram region.

Days of relentless monsoon rain have left hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar fearing more landslides and flooding after at least 13 people were killed in rain-related disasters in the camps this week.

Cox’s Bazar recorded the highest death toll, with 19 fatalities

At least 13 refugees have died in rain-triggered landslides after days of relentless monsoon rain

249 lives were lost to natural calamities in that period, Disaster Management and Relief Minister Asadul Habib Dulu tells parliament

Fisheries officials warn damage may rise as five days of monsoon rain inundate new areas

Health authorities say Rohingyas are among the dead as days of heavy rain continue to batter the region

Heavy rain buries houses and raises fears of more slope collapses

Four days of heavy rain and hill runoff have submerged large parts of the district, prompting authorities to open 220 shelters

RRRC says an earlier figure of eight deaths was caused by double-counting during the rescue operation

The deaths in Ukhiya and Maheshkhali came after 11 people were killed in rain-triggered landslides across the district

Locals say heavy rain caused part of a nearby hill and a tree to fall onto her mud house

A section of the Chattogram-Ramgarh highway in Hathazari went under water, leaving vehicles stranded for hours

District administration urges residents of high-risk foothill areas to move to safer locations after three days of rain

Continuous heavy rain has weakened hill slopes across the district, raising fears of further landslides

Authorities urge residents in high-risk hillside areas to move to shelters