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
