Four members of a family were pulled from the debris on Monday after a landslide on Chittagong University (CU) campus triggered by torrential rain for the last several days.
The big chunk of mud from a hill fell on the house of Md Hanif, a staff of Biology Faculty, at Shahi colony around 4:30 am when he along with his wife and two children were asleep.
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Quoting local people CU proctor Prof. Md Nurul Azim, said a chunk of mud from a hill with a tree collapsed on the house of Hanif, leaving the house inmates trapped.
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The walls of the house also collapsed.
Later, local people managed to rescue them alive.
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Hanif was injured and taken to a local hospital.