Bangladesh News

Chief Adviser (CA) Fakhruddin Ahmed yesterday sounded a strong warning against illegal hill cutting in the port city and said persons involved in such an act would be punished.

He gave the warning while talking to reporters in the landslide-hit Kacharigona area, adjacent to Chittagong Cantonment, in the morning.

The CA said the army will remain alert and remove people from vulnerable areas to safer places. He also assured the people of resolving the water-logging problem in the port city.

“Our first task is to rescue, treat and help rehabilitate the affected people,” said the head of the caretaker government

Earlier, after disembarking from the plane at Shah Amanat Airport, the chief adviser drove straight to Lebu Bagan in Hathazari where Chittagong GOC Major General Sina Ibne Jamali briefed him about the aftermath of Monday’s landslides that killed more than 100 people.

Communications Adviser Major General (retd) MA Matin, Chittagong Divisional Commissioner Mokhlesur Rahman and senior civil and military officials were present.

The CA went to Jahangir Line High School in Chittagong Cantonment where an army relief center has been set up. Some 501 injured people from Lebu Bagan, Kacharigona and Workshop areas were brought to the center for treatment. Of them, 47 seriously injured people were sent to Chittagong Combined Military Hospital (CMH).

He distributed rice, biscuit, saree, lungi and money in cash among the affected people at the relief center.

Later, the CA visited Kacharigona and talked to the affected people. He went round the area, consoled the family members of the landslide victims and assured them of all possible help.

After visiting the injured at the CMH, the CA visited another landslide spot in Kusumbagh area and distributed relief materials and money in cash among the affected people.

The CA returned to the capital at 2:50pm.