KHAGRACHARI, Bangladesh (Reuters) – Landslides triggered by heavy rain buried hillside homes in Bangladesh on Tuesday (June 13) killing at least 43 people and injuring several, officials said.
The landslides hit hilly districts in the southeast, killing 10 people in one village, eight in another and seven in a third, said police official Rafiq Ullah. The death toll could go up as rescuers were searching for bodies, he added.
Video filmed in hilly Khagrachari in the Chittagong district in southeast Bangladesh showed people digging for bodies.
Densely populated Bangladesh is battered by storms, floods and landslides every rainy season. The latest fatalities came weeks after Cyclone Mora lashed Bangladesh’s southeast, killing at least seven people and damaging tens of thousands of homes.
