Bangladesh, July 10 -- tarting July 6, multiple landslides claimed the lives of several Rohingya refugees and local residents, including children, in four separate districts of Chattogram, as incessant monsoon rain drenched almost the entire country, flooding cities and villages, disrupting air, rail, road and river transport, triggering landslides and raising fears of floods across several districts.

The downpour, triggered by a monsoon depression, also caused rivers in the Chittagong Hill Tracts to swell by nearly six metres within a day, inundated thousands of homes, disrupted power supply and damaged transport and communication networks. Eleven people, including eight Rohingyas, were killed in different landslides in Cox's Bazar on ...