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May 18, 2009, 13:33 GMT

Landslide kills six in Bangladesh

Dhaka - At least six people killed in a rain-triggered landslide in Bangladesh's north-eastern hill district of Moulvibazar on Monday, police said. Among the six, five of a family died as a chunk of earth collapsed on their shanty house in a tea garden located in Sreemangal sub-district. The other was buried under the mud at a nearby slum. Police said heavy rain in the area for a couple of hours Sunday night caused the mudslide that also buried many houses rendering a number of people homeless in the remote hilly locality. Locals recovered the bodies from beneath of the ground. In the worst-ever rain triggered hill-slide in June 2007, at least 121 people were killed in Bangladesh's port city of Chittagong

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