Police start case, arrest one over Chittagong landslip that killed three children

Police have started a case against four people who rented the shanties at the foot of a hill that slid following heavy rains, leaving three children killed in Chittagong. 

Chittagong Bureaubdnews24.com
Published : 19 July 2015, 07:31 PM
Updated : 19 July 2015, 07:54 PM

One of the accused, Mohammad Shahabuddin, was arrested around 9pm on Sunday.

Sub-Inspector Abdul Halim of Bayezid Police Station filed the case against Shahabuddin, Mohammad Mohiuddin, Mohammad Russel, and Mohammad Sohel.

Bibi Mariam, 18 months, ‘Salma’, 5, and Arafat Hossain Farid, 12, all children of mechanic Mohammed Shahjahan, were buried alive in the landslide on the shanties called Amin Colony in the foothills at Bayazid Tank early on Sunday.

The colony is an illegal settlement resulting from encroachment on the hills.
 
A total of 127 people residing in similar settlements had died during the deadly landslips in the hills of Chittagong after heavy rains in June 2007.