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.
A big chunk of mud from a hill fell on the house of Md Hanif, a staff of Biology faculty, at Shahi colony around 4:30am, when he along with his wife and two children were asleep.
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 family members trapped.
The walls of the house also collapsed. Later, locals managed to rescue them alive.
Hanif was injured and taken to a local hospital.
Meanwhile, an 18-year-old college student drowned in floodwater at Islamia Haat Badamtal in Hathazari upazila on Monday.
The deceased was identified as Nipa Palit, daughter of Uttam Palit of the upazila and a second-year student of Hathazari Government College.
