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Landslides triggered by heavy rain have killed two children in separate parts of Chattogram.
The incidents took place on Wednesday in Jungle Salimpur's Chhinnamul area of Sitakunda Upazila and near Chasma Hill under Panchlaish Police Station in the city, bdnews24.com reports.
The child killed in Jangal Salimpur was 10-month-old Ashraful Islam, son of local resident Md Moinuddin, according to Sitakunda Upazila administrator (UNO) Fakhrul Islam.
UNO Fakhrul said that soil dislodged by the heavy rain had collapsed onto the house, killing the child.
He said authorities had been using loudspeakers for several days to urge residents living precariously at the foot of the hill to move out, but the family had stayed put.
Visiting the site, the UNO said Tk 25,000 had been given for the child's burial, along with a package of dry food for the family.
The child killed at Chasma Hill in the city was identified only as Samia, 12.
Sub-Inspector Riazul Salehin of Panchlaish Police Station said that the landslide struck Babu Colony on lane 2 of the hill.
He said six houses stood at the foot of the hill in the colony, and soil from the hillside collapsed onto houses No. 3 and 4, killing Samia, a resident of house No. 3.
Chattogram has seen heavy rain for a fourth consecutive day, without let-up, leaving several parts of the city waterlogged and disrupting movement for residents who ventured out.
The Met Office's Patenga station recorded 234.9mm of rainfall in the 24 hours to noon on Wednesday.
The port city had recorded its highest rainfall in 42 years the day before, on Tuesday.
A landslide on Tuesday killed a 55-year-old woman, Renu Akter, at Adarsha Gram in Ward No. 3 of Rangunia Municipality.
In the city's Rahman Nagar area, a 32-year-old man, Shafiqul Islam, died after a wall collapsed on his house.