Refugee Commissioner Mizanur Rahman said four Rohingyas were killed, including a child and her mother who were buried under a landslide.
“We have relocated around 2,000 people to safe places who are at risk of landslides in the camps,” he told AFP.
Hundreds of villages were swamped in Chittagong, Bangladesh’s second-largest city and home to its biggest port, in what residents said was some of the heaviest flooding in decades.
“The flood damaged at least 5,000 thatched houses,” district administrator Abul Bashar Mohammed Fakhruzzaman told AFP.
“At least 19 people have died from the floods. We recovered some bodies from the Sangu River after floodwater receded in the past few days. Some 450,000 people were affected by the floods.”
Transport between Chittagong and Cox’s Bazar was cut for a few days and newly laid railway tracks were damaged, he said.
The rains also triggered a major flash flood in the hill district of Bandarban, where administrator Shah Mujahid Uddin said at least 10 people were killed.
Five people were killed in the Rangamati hill district, where heavy rains cut off some 23,000 people, administrator Mosharraf Hossain said.
Bangladeshi authorities have sent food and relief to the worst-affected region, said Shahina Sultana, a senior government official in Chattogram region, the new name for Chittagong.
Five people were still missing, she said.
“The government is doing everything in its power to support people,” she said.
Source: CNA
