Two Satkhira villages affected by landslide

Landslide following last week's rain has left 15,000 people of several hundred families affected in two villages in Kolaroa upazila of Satkhira.

Local administration officials said dozens of dwelling houses were on the verge of collapse as landslide created big crevices and ponds in their precinct, paddy fields and streets at Kamarkhali and Tarlia villages.

Many craters, from 2 to 10 feet in width, are exuding gaseous substance and oozing water.

Landslide also left cleft and hollow spaces in a numbers of houses, they said.

Panicked inmates are passing their days in fear as affected houses may collapse any time, people's representatives of the locality said.

They are passing their days under open sky leaving their houses for the last few days.

UP chairman Rabiul Islam and an ex-member of Kamarkhali village Atiar Rahman Khan said 15,000 villagers of Kamarkhali and Tarulia were passing their days in great danger under open sky and as massive landslide in the last one week created ditches and cavities in fields and streets compounds of dwelling houses.

Upazila agriculture officer Abdul Latif said landslides left humps as well as big cracks in farm land and fields in two villages affecting

agriculture.

UNO ANM Tarikul Islam and Satkhira DC Abdus Samad said they heard the matter and would ask authority concerned to send experts, including soil, and send assistance, including emergency relief for the affected villagers.

But they said 4 to 5 deep tube-wells, set up by villagers to lift underground water in the two villages several years ago, might have caused large vacuum beneath surface soil leading to the

landslide.

Source : New Age