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Two teens killed in landslide while playing football in Ctg

Disasters 2025-05-01, 9:42pm

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Landslide from a Chattagram hill kills two children and injured three others on Thursday morning.



Chattogram, May 01 - Two children were killed and three others injured in a landslide while playing football near a hill in Anwara upazila of Chattogram on Thursday morning.

Locals said there was no rain in the area during the incident, blaming the rampant hill-cutting by influential people for the casualties.

The deceased were identified as Rohan, 12, son of Md Abdur Rahim and Misbah, 13, son of Imran Hossain, both residents of Bairag union of the upazila.

Two of the injured are Siam, 11, son of Mostak Mia, and Sifat, 10, son of Abul Kashem.

The tragic incident took place at the foot of the KEPZ hill in Bairag Union of the upazila.

Locals said a group of children was playing football in an open field near the hill when a chunk of it suddenly collapsed, burying several of them under the debris.

They were rescued and taken to Anwara Upazila Health Complex where physicians declared Rohan and Misbah dead.

The other injured children were shifted to Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH).

Monir Hossain, officer-in-charge of Anwara police station, said they took the body under their custody from the health complex.

Anwara Upazila Health Officer Dr Mohtab Uddin Chowdhury said the deceased were brought to the hospital in critical condition and died shortly after.

The injured were sent to the CMCH for better treatment, he said.

Locals held the alleged hill-cutting by the Korean Export Processing Zone (KEPZ) in the area responsible for the incident.

However, in a media statement, KEPZ authorities denied the allegations, claiming that certain vested quarters were trying to mislead the public by unfairly blaming them. They said the incident occurred near Block-C, but their land development site is located around 100 metres west of the spot.

The statement added that on April 30, senior officials from the Department of Environment, along with the Upazila Nirbahi Officer and the Assistant Commissioner (Land) of Anwara, visited the Block-C area. Currently, no land development work is underway there, it said. - UNB