A total of 83 people were killed in over the past two days due to landslides that also severed transport links.
Rescuers retrieved nine more bodies from debris this morning that raised the toll to 94, several of them being victims of drowning as gushing waters from hills washed away their homes at foothills, officials said.
"So far 36 deaths were reported from Bandarban, 37 from Cox's Bazar and 21 in Chittagong," divisional commissioner of Chittagong division Sirajul Haque Khokon told reporters.
He said most of the victims were asleep when the huge chunks of mud buried them alive while some 20 people were still missing.
A military spokesman in Dhaka said army troops joined the rescue campaigns along with fire brigade rescuers as several more people were feared to be trapped under tonnes of rubble at the scenes of landslides caused by incessant rains for the last three days.
The mudslides damaged over 3,000 shanties, 2000 of them alone at the worst affected Lama area of Bandarban.
Monsoon rains sparked a series of landslides in different places of the Bandarban hill district.
The highest number of deaths -- 23 -- were reported from the rugged Lama area of the district, local reports said.
"The landslides perished at least two families entirely, one having 11 members and another having six at Lama," they said.
According to the state Disaster Management Information Centre, around 50,000 people were affected by the flash floods. (more)
