Landslide Kills Six In Northeastern Bangladesh

May 18, 2009 12:16 p.m. EST

Dhaka, Bangladesh (AHN) - Six people, five of them of a family, were killed in landslide triggered by heavy rain in the country's northeastern Moulvibazer district on Monday, police said.

Five of a family died as a chunk of earth from the nearby hill collapsed in a heap on their shanty in the Lakhai tea garden slum located in Sreemangal sub-district, officially known as upazila.

The other died instantly in a landslide in the other tea garden during heavy shower.

Heavy rain in the area on early Monday caused the mudslide that also collapsed many houses rendering a number of people homeless in the remote area, police confirmed.