Landslide death toll 86

Death toll in landslide and house collapse due to heavy downpour in Chittagong, Cox's Bazar and Bandarban rose to 86 yesterday.
Of the victims, 36 died in Bandarban, 23 in Chittagong and 27 in Cox's Bazar, officials in the respective districts said.
At least a dozen others died in drowning and lightning in Cox's Bazar and Sylhet over the last two days.
The death toll yesterday jumped from 15 the day before and is feared to mount further, with scores remain missing following multiple landslides in those districts.
Rescue operation was intensified yesterday with army troops joining the salvage efforts by volunteers and fire brigade members.
Heavy monsoon rain battered the southeast region of the country causing several landslides and house collapse in the hill slopes over the last three days.
All domestic and international flight operations to and from Chittagong Shah Amanat International Airport were declared suspended at 4:30pm on Tuesday as the runway, like much of the port city, went under rainwater.
Flight operations were supposed to resume at 5:00am today, according to civil aviation authorities.
Train services on the Dhaka-Chittagong route were also cut off as a railway bridge at Bhatiari collapsed around 8:00pm on Tuesday, presumably due to the downpour that began around 3:30am.
Atiqur Rahman, deputy secretary of food and disaster management ministry who is working at the ministry's National Disaster Response Coordination Centre, said information of death continued coming up to the centre.
The center will remain open from 6:00am to 12:00pm every day for the next few days, a press release of the ministry said.
The government on Tuesday allocated Tk 10 million and 1,450 tonnes of rice for the affected people in Chittagong, Bandarban, Cox's Bazaar, Feni, Sylhet, Habiganj and Moulvibazar, among other districts.
In addition, local administrations in Chittagong, Bandarban, Cox's Bazaar, Feni and Sylhet have distributed 172 tonnes of rice and Tk 7 lakh among the victims.
Our Chittagong bureau office reports 18 people, including women and children, died in the port city and three in Banshkhali upazila.
Five members of a family were buried alive after a huge chunk of earth fell on their hillside home at the city's Biswa Colony on Tuesday, said Abdul Latif, officer-in-charge of Khulshi Police Station.
In the city's Motka Ghona area two sisters aged seven and eight died in a landslide on Tuesday evening.
Five people, including two two-year-old girls, were killed at Yasin Colony under Khulshi Police Station.
Twenty four members of Bangladesh Army were conducting rescue operation in the area.
Captain Gazi Mohammad Maksud-ur-Rahim, who led the operation, told The Daily Star they recovered three bodies from 7 to 8 feet under earth.
Three young members of a family were buried under mad on Tuesday night at Banshkhali upazila in Chittagong. The victims are Shahidul Islam, 12, Khorsheda Begum, 8 and Fatema Begum, 4.
In a wall collapse, 15-year-old schoolgirl Kawser Ani died at Chikandandi union under Hathazari upazila.
The incident happened when a roadside demarcation wall fell on her amid ceaseless rain while she was passing through around 6.00pm, said Mohammad Idris, a member of the Chikandandi union.
Eight-year-old Abul Hossain of Ambagan area also died in a wall collapse on Tuesday night.
Four members of a family were buried alive at Andharmanik area under Khulshi in another incident of landslide on Tuesday night. The dead are Jahanara Begum, 40, and her three children Subarna Akter, 19, Rabeya Akter, 13, and Tanvir Ahmed, 9.
Meanwhile, city life started to return to normal yesterday as water receded in most of the city areas.
Power supply which was disrupted Tuesday was also restored in many areas yesterday.
However, loading and unloading of cargos at the outer anchorage of Chittagong Port still remained suspended due to bad weather, said Sayed Farhad Uddin, secretary of Chittagong Port Authority.
In Cox's Bazar, 10 bodies were recovered from Ukhiya, eight from Chakaria, seven from Ramu, five from Moheskhali, three each from Cox's Bazar sadar and Pekua and two from Kutubdia, said Abdul Mozid, district relief and rehabilitation officer.
He said 24 of them died in landslide, three in house collapse, and five in lightening while six people drowned, he added.