Landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains killed at least nine people in southern Bangladesh early Thursday, AP quoted a police official as saying. Most of the victims were children sleeping in their mud-and-straw huts, which were buried when mud and earth slid down the hills in Cox's Bazar district, local police chief Mohammad Jasimuddin said. Four young brothers died in one hut, while two men and three more children perished in a neighboring village, Jasimuddin said. Heavy monsoon rains have battered the hilly region close to the Bay of Bengal for past three days. The area is 185 miles (300 kilometers) south of the capital, Dhaka.
