Two people are killed and three others injured in landslides triggered by heavy rainfall in Rangamati and Chattogram.
Two people, including a child, were killed and five others injured in a landslide triggered by heavy rainfall yesterday in KPM Kalabagan area of Rangamati’s Kaptai upazila.
A landslide, triggered by heavy rainfall following cyclone “Titli”, claimed three lives of a family and another man died in a wall collapse in Chattagram city early yesterday.
Rangamati residents have been overcome with anxiety as they anticipate another heavy shower bringing more tragedies.
Five Rohingya refugees are hurt in a landslide triggered by torrential rain at a refugee camp in Ukhia upazila of Cox’s Bazar, an official says.
Three people, including a father and his son, were killed in a landslide at a hill in Chittagong's Rangunia upazila yesterday afternoon when some workers were cutting the hill.
The port city's unique combination of sea, river and hills is going to lose one of the features due to the greed of an influential quarter.
Monsoon torrential rain triggered fresh landslides in Cox's Bazar killing at least five people yesterday. Heavy rainfall in the peak of monsoon has caused water-logging in the coastal and hill districts for the last few days disrupting usual business and people's everyday life.
A teenage girl was killed and at least four others went missing in a landslide triggered by torrential rain in Bandarban yesterday morning.
It will take at least two more weeks to resume the road link with Rangamati, district officials said after estimating the damage sustained from the series of landslides.
Body of the missing army man who was buried under soil following a landslide in Manikchhari camp is found after more than a day of frantic digging.
It was just a matter of time before a tragedy of this scale befell the country's hill region. The way people felled trees, cleared forest for commercial plantation and cultivation, and built houses on hill slopes in the Chittagong region, something disastrous was bound to happen, say experts.
The government is to distribute Tk 50 lakh, 100 metric tonnes of rice and 500 bundles of corrugated tin among the landslides victims of Rangamati.
The parliament expresses deep shock at the death of over 100 people, including four army men, in hillslides in Chittagong, Rangamati and Bandarban.
Four victims of flash flood have been found dead in Chittagong today, two missing persons have been found dead in Bandarban and as many as in Rangamati. Also two more have died in fresh landslide in Cox's Bazar. So far, with the flash flood and fresh landslide, the death toll has risen to 143.
In the worst landslide since 2007, at least 130 people, including four army men, have died in the hilly areas of Chittagong, Rangamati and Bandarban following incessant downpour overnight. The death toll may rise further, officials said.