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Landslides, floods kill at least 88 in Bangladesh | Devastating landslides and floods caused by heavy
rains hit many houses in Bangladesh's three southeastern hilly districts Since Tuesday morning, killing at least 88 people and leaving over a dozen persons injured
with many more feared dead under the mud, officials said Wednesday. They said
heavy rains swept through Bangladesh 's three southeastern districts -- Chittagong
, Cox's Bazaar and Bandarban -- and triggered huge landslides since Tuesday. Kamrul
Ahsan, police chief in Bandarban district, some 316 km southeast of capital Dhaka
, told Xinhua over phone, "34 people were killed and 14 injured in the incidence
of rain-triggered landslides." He said landslide killed 25 people including 11
from the same family in the district's Lama area while nine more persons including
six of another family were buried alive in its hilly Naikhongchhari. KM Tariqul
Islam, the district's administration chief, said rescuers are still searching
for some missing persons. "About 14 people were also injured in the two incidents
of landslides in the district's Lama and Naikhongchhari since Tuesday evening,"
Ahsan added. Senior Police official Selim Jahangir from Cox's Bazar district,
some 391 km southeast of capital Dhaka , said, "at least 34 people were killed
due to landslides, flash floods and thunderbolts in the district." Flood caused
y the incessant rain inundated many areas of the Cox's Bazaar, famous for the
world's longest natural sandy sea beach, disrupting communications in the district,
he said. Several landslides were also reported in many parts of the country's
hilly Chittagong port city, 242 km southeast of Dhaka , as downpour continued
for hours since Tuesday morning. At least 20 people were killed in and around
southeastern Chittagong city due to rain-triggered land slides, thunderstorms,
wall collapse, electrocution and some related casualties, the district's administration
chief Faiz Ahmed told Xinhua.
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