Landslide kills 6 of a family

The victims Mohammad Hossain, 53, his daughters Marium Khatun, 23, and Amena Khatun, 14, sons Rubel, 12, and Shukkur, 10, and grandson Elias, 1, were asleep when their house was buried beneath a landslide from a nearby hill, police and local people said.

Two other people were also injured in the incident.

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The bodies were recovered by police and later buried.

Incidents of landslide in Cox's Bazar are on the rise due to indiscriminate hill cutting.