DHAKA, Sept 14 (NNN-BSS) – At least six people were killed, and many dwellings were damaged, in several rain-triggered landslides in Bangladesh’s south-eastern Cox’s Bazar district, a senior official said, yesterday.
Mohammad Shamsuddouza Nayan, additional refugee relief and repatriation commissioner, said, a huge landslide took place Thursday, in a refugee camp in the Cox’s Bazar district, some 392 km south-east of Dhaka.
He said, three members of a Rohingya family died, due to the landslide, at the Hatikumrul-14 Rohingya camp, in the district, which is now home to nearly one million Rohingya refugees. Most of them are living on the slopes of the hills, and the landslide destroyed at least three huts in the camp.
In a remote hilly area of the Cox’s Bazar district, three more people were reportedly killed early yesterday, when the wall of their house collapsed in a landslide.
Authorities are working to evacuate those still living in risky slopes.
Landslides are frequent in Bangladesh’s hilly areas, during monsoon that usually runs from June to Sept, as land has been deforested to grow crops and build houses.– NNN-BSS
