Landslides in Chittagong metropolis
The landslide in Batali hill early in the morning on 1st July killed 17 people who could not arrange shelters in other places except for the bottom of the hill. Last year we also observed such mass killing by landslides in Chittagong. It is a common phenomenon in the hills but we have not done anything so far. The hills of Bangladesh are composed of soft earth, so when it rains for several hours landslide occurs. A TV channel has reported on 2nd July that at the bottom of 15 hills in Chittagong metropolis thousands of poor people are living with high risk of devastating landslides. Bangladesh is basically a country of plain land other than a part of Chittagong division and some areas of Sylhet division. But the weather, crop and culture are similar throughout the country. So, the government can consider erasing at least the 15 hills at Chittagong metropolis on urgent basis to save the valuable lives of poor Bangladeshis living at the bottom of those hills.
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