Landslides kill two children in Ctg, Cox's Bazar

Two children have died in separate landslides triggered by incessant rains in Chattogram and Cox's Bazar.

In Chattogram, 12-year-old Md Rayhan was crushed to death when parts of a hill came crashing down on his father's tea shop in the port city's Sholoshohor area on Monday, according to the police.

His father Deen Mohammad has set up the shop under a hill in the Green View Residential Area where Rayhan stayed alone overnight, said Panchlaish Police Station chief Nazim Uddin Mazumder.

"Soil from the hill collapsed due to excessive rain and fell on the shop. Rayhan's family pulled his body out of the rubble before the police arrived at the scene," he added.

Meanwhile, another child was killed in a landslide in Cox's Bazar's Moheshkhali Upazila.

The body of 5-year-old Rabiul Hasan was recovered from a heap of mud in Kalamarchhara around 11 pm on Sunday after a part of a hill collapsed on top of him, according to Moheshkhali Police Station chief Abdul Hai.

Citing Rabiul's family, Kalamarchhara Union Parishad Chairman Tareq Bin Osman Sharif said Rabiul and a few other children went to play in the hills near his house in the afternoon.

"It has been raining heavily in Moheshkhali for the last few days. As a result, the hill's soil softened and crumbled, burying the child alive."

The union council is conducting a campaign to evacuate residents in areas that are at high risk of landslides, according to Tareq.