Disaster after heavy rains in Bangladesh, military deployment for rescue
Two children are claimed to have perished when a house wall fell due to a landslide in a remote hillside area of Cox's Bazar district.
KATHMANDU: Military has been deployed to rescue those affected by the calamity in Bangladesh caused by torrential rains.
Following severe rains, soldiers have been mobilized for rescue and relief in the Chattogram district of the country, which is around 240 kilometers southeast of Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka.
Since Monday, six people have been killed as a result of the post-rain tragedy in Chattogram’s Cox’s Bazar area. Around one million Rohingya refugees now live on the hillsides in the area.
Bangladesh’s Refugee, Relief and Repatriation Commissioner (RRRC) Mohammad Mizanur Rahman said, ‘Four Rohingyas have died and two others have been injured in two separate landslides due to heavy rains since Monday.’
Two children are claimed to have perished when a house wall fell due to a landslide in a remote hillside area of Cox’s Bazar district.
According to the Ministry of Defence’s Inter-Services Public Relations, emergency relief and rescue efforts with medical aid are still underway in flood-affected areas.
Most of the shelters have been entirely or partially ruined as a result of the rain, and Bangladesh’s port city, Chattogram, has also been affected.
Terai districts have been swamped, and road traffic has been interrupted. Residents of Chattogram’s low-lying districts have been enduring waterlogging for days, as the country’s biggest port city’s roadways, lanes, and by-lanes have been inundated with water up to their knees, bringing significant hardship to commuters.
During the monsoon season, which lasts from June to September, landslides are widespread in Bangladesh’s mountainous regions.
As a big amount of woodland has been destroyed in that area in order to produce crops and build new residences.
