Bangladesh ? Mudslides, flooding and lightning strikes killed 108 people and left scores missing in Bangladesh as annual monsoons washed away shanties and inundated cities, officials said Tuesday.

The worst-hit area was the hilly port city of Chittagong, where large chunks of earth slid off the soaked hillsides, burying dozens of crudely built shacks. At least 97 of the deaths were reported there, city official Nur Sulaiman said.

More than 50 others were reported missing in the shantytown, which is near a military area, he added.

The heaviest recorded rainfall levels in seven years have also inundated parts of the capital, Dhaka, and other regions.

Lightning strikes this week have killed at least 11 people.

Bangladesh, a low-lying delta nation of 150 million people, is buffeted by cyclones and floods that kill hundreds each year. A powerful cyclone in 1991 killed 139,000 people.