State of the Climate in Asia 2024
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Landslides
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Govt decides to demarcate spots vulnerable to landslide in Ctg
The authorities in Chittagong decided to launch a drive demarcate vulnerable spots with red lines and move the people from such spots by dismantling their houses on the hill slopes. The drive is aimed at averting further landslides, officials said. Fears for fresh landslides after Monday's incident in which 11 slum dwellers were killed at Motijharna at Lalkhan Bazar prompted the authorities to make the decision at a meeting with the commerce and education adviser, Hossain Zillur Rahman, on Tuesday.
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Landslide zones in Ctg to be marked
The government initiated the process to mark hillsides and valleys, where landslides are possible, as "Red Zones", evacuate people living in those areas and bring those areas under afforestation. The move comes a day after 11 people died in a mudslide at Matirjharna in Chittagong city. Commerce and Education Adviser Zillur Rahman gave the necessary directives to authorities concerned in this regard during a meeting in Chittagong yesterday. The meeting was held at the local circuit house following Monday's rain-induced mudslide that killed 11 people.
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Mudslide deaths (Editorial)
THE death of eleven people in a landslide in Chittagong raises all our old concerns about the precarious way lives are lived in this country. The fact that huge chunks of mud from a hill descended on fourteen homes, part of a slum, and took the lives of two families would be called by fatalists as an act of nature against which people have hardly any defence. But in reality this was courted, thanks to fiddling with nature and imprudent choice of site for habitation with commercial interests thrown in.
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3 killed, 5 feared dead in landslides
Landslide and flood triggered by incessant rainfall for a week killed at least three persons and five others are feared dead here in the district on Monday. Local Lalu Prasad Acharya, Bhakti Prasad Acharya, Maniram Acharya were buried as a landslide swept away nine houses at Dahachaur of Sukatiya-8 at around 4 am on Monday. They are feared dead. Kamal Bahadur Magar and Dan Bahadur Baral of Kashikandh-7 of Dailekh district, who had been staying at Maniram's hotel were also swept away by the landslide.
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Recommendations to prevent landslide tragedies largely ignored
The authorities concerned have done little to translate into reality the recommendations made by the probe bodies last year after the catastrophic landslide in Chittagong city that killed 126 people, said sources. Residents blamed the government for not taking effective steps to protect the port city from landslide tragedies. Consequently another landslide tragedy, the latest of its kind, hit the city's Motijarna slum in Lalkhan Bazaar on Monday, killing 11 sleeping residents, they said.
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11 killed in Chittagong landslide
A rain-induced mudslide at Matijharna in Chittagong city early yesterday left 11 people, almost all of two families, dead and two injured. The mudslide destroyed 14 houses of a slum built on a hillside from which the government was relocating families apprehending the danger.
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Nine killed in Jajarkot landslide
At least nine people have been killed, including five of the same family, when a landslide swept away their houses Wednesday night in Jajarkot district. The landslide swept away the house of Amrita Shahi killing her, three of her sons, a daughter and four other family guests, in Khalanga of the district. Karuna Shahi, who was seriously injured in the catastrophe, has been taken to district hospital for treatment. Local villagers, personnel of the Nepal Police, Armed Police Force and Nepal Army are engaged in the rescue operation. Six dead bodies have been recovered from the site
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Revenue Minister favours action plan to mitigate disasters
PANJIM, JULY 22
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One more kiled in Cox's Bazar landslide
A two-month old baby was killed in rain-triggered landslide in Cox's Bazar on Tuesday morning following Monday's landslide that claimed lives two persons. The deceased is Noor Kayeas. The Cox's Bazar municipality chairman, Sarwar Kamal, said the landslide occurred at Pahartali in the town at about 10:00am when a heavy chunk of mud fell on the house of Mohammad Yunus. Later, local people rescued Yunus's wife Rong Bahar injured and recovered the dead body of Kayeas. Rong Bahar was admitted to the Cox's Bazar General Hospital,' he said.
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Two killed in Cox's Bazar landslide
Two persons were killed in an incident of landslide in Ramu upazila of Cox's Bazar Sunday morning with rainfall and onrush of hill water playing havoc in the district for the second time. Earlier, thirteen people were killed in rain-triggered landslides at Teknaf, one in the Cox's Bazar town, one at Moheskhali and one at Ukhiya.