A rain-induced mudslide at Matijharna in Chittagong city early yesterday left 11 people, almost all of two families, dead and two injured. The mudslide destroyed 14 houses of a slum built on a hillside from which the government was relocating families apprehending the danger. Sources and eyewitnesses said a large chunk of Tankir Pahar, a hill in Chittagong city, slid down on the tin-roofed houses of Hossain Colony slum around 5:00am killing the 11 including six of a single family. Firemen with the help of locals recovered the bodies and sent the injured to Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH). The dead were identified as Johora Akhter, 35, her daughter Sumaiya Akhter, 7, her three sons Amirul, 9, Khairul, 11, and Zahirul, 13, and her uncle Taju Mia, 55, Suru Mia, 55, his wife Anwara, 42, Fatema Begum, 45, her sister-in-law Bilkis, 15, and Shahjadi, 7. Suru Mia and Anwara's daughter Kulsum, 10, was injured and she underwent surgery in her leg in CMCH. The other injured was identified as Ayjan Begum, 45. END OF A FAMILY Two years ago Johora came to Chittagong with her four kids hoping for a better life leaving behind her mentally challenged husband in Comilla. She along with her kids and uncle Taju have been living in the single-room house at Matijahrna slum as the rent was cheap. Her husband Jasim joined them later and she brought in her brother Hasan to her home recently. Jasim and Hasan were the ones mourning the death of almost all in the family yesterday. Hasan yesterday said, "We were sleeping on the bed and on the floor last night. I woke up hearing a sound of something big falling and immediately found myself covered in mud and pinned down by the ceiling fan and the tin-roof. I could see nothing and had difficulty breathing." "I struggled desperately, freed one of my hands, removed the debris and found a way out," said the 21-year-old. He then broke down in tears trying to say that he could do nothing for the others. KULSUM BECOMES AN ORPHAN Suru Mia and his wife Anwara worked together as chef's help at a community centre in Chittagong and died together under the mud yesterday. Anwara's brother Mofiz was staying with her as he was having treatment for TB in the city. "With the lower part of her body under the heap of mud Ano [Anwara] was moaning in pain and asking for water when I came out of the mud and debris around 7:00am," said Mofiz. "Locals helped me rescue my niece Kulsum