A number of makeshift houses are now buried under tonnes of waste. The report quoted local resident Musa Suleiman Abdulah saying he heard "a big sound" and saw "something like a tornado... rushing to us" when the landslide occurred. Another resident, Tebeju Asres said that the family's house had been swallowed by the landslide. Now I don't know the fate of all of them," the BBC report quoted him while speaking to a news agency. It plans to burn rubbish generated by the capital's estimated four million people and convert it into electricity.

Source: bd News24 March 13, 2017 05:56 UTC