Death toll from Bangladesh landslides rises to 54
Saturday, April 23, 2011
DHAKA, June 16 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from early Tuesday's devastating rain-triggered landslides in Bangladesh's two southeastern districts rose to 54, as rescuers retrieved three more bodies including that of an army personnel Wednesday, officials said.
Heavy rains swept through Bangladesh's two southeastern districts -- Cox's Bazaar and Bandarban -- and triggered huge landslides early Tuesday.
"With recovery of three more bodies Wednesday, the number of death toll in my district rose to 50 including six army personnel, " Md Giasuddin Ahmed, administration chief of the Cox's Bazaar district, some 391 km away of capital Dhaka, told Xinhua over mobile phone.
He said bodies of five army personnel, buried under a heavy chunk of mud that fell on their camp at the foot of a hill during heavy downpour, were retrieved on Tuesday evening.
Flood caused by the incessant rain that inundated many areas and disrupted communications in the Cox's Bazaar, famous for the world' s longest natural sandy sea beach, improved Wednesday, Ahmed said.
In another devastating landslide early Tuesday, according to officials, four members including a women and two children of a family were also killed in the country's southeastern Bandarban district, some 316 km away of capital Dhaka.
Ahmed, however, said there is so far no information on any missing in Cox's Bazaar district a day after the landslides occurred.
Landslides are frequent in Bangladesh's hilly areas during the heavy monsoon that usually runs from June to September. In June 2007, some 123 people were killed in a devastating landslide in Bangladesh's southeastern Chittagong district, some 242 km away of Dhaka.
Editor: Han Jingjing
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