Due to heavy to very heavy rainfall which is likely to occur at places over Chattogram, Khulna and Barishal divisions during the next 24 hours, beginning at 4pm Wednesday, there are chances of landslides in the hilly areas of the Chattogram Division, the Met Office said in a warning.

After continuing since the third week of July, an active Monsoon is likely to propel the rains over the country till August 2, a senior meteorologist said. But it may not be even across the country. The falls are likely to be moderate to heavy varying at places because of the resurgent monsoon buoyed by the recent depression that has left a trough in the Bay generating the moisture rich air to beef up the rains further.

The monsoon is active over the country but very strong over the north Bay where the trough of the low pressure extends, senior meteorologist and weather researcher Abul alam Mallick told The Independent yesterday.

Till yesterday the amount of monsoon rains was 8.9 percent lesser than the normal fall, he said. As  the monsoon rains may become normal with the active system and more falls expected from today that continues on tomorrow and Sunday, the deficit is likely to be met as it rate of monsoon rains become normal, Mallick added.

Teknaf, the south-eastern tip of Bangladesh hosting 12 lakhs Rohingyas living in makeshift shelters scooped out of hills in the slopes of hills of Ukhia were battered by one of the heaviest rains during the past 24 hours totaling 315mm ending at 6am yesterday.

These people were driven out by one of the modern history’s worst ethnic cleansing by the Myanmar Army from their homes in the western Rakhaine state of that country now lives under the slopes of hills of Ukhia in Cox’sBazar since last August.