Some 200 families of Kolabunia, the worst affected village in the moderate jolts on July 27, took shelter on the Nizkandra Government Primary School grounds after their mud houses were razed by the shudders.

Many hills and hillocks developed cracks in tremor shock waves that rattled the Chittagong Hill Tracts and Chittagong city leaving one killed, 25 injured and hundreds of houses flattened.

Some people have shifted their houses to plains and some have left the area to seek a greater degree of security, Shanti Kumar Chakma of Dhumoichachhora village said.

"There is no medical facility, virtually no relief for the victims here," said Sagir Ali. Sultan and Samsu Mia of the village also echoed the voice.

"At least tell us one thing whether we will be able to stay here," an old man dazed by days on the edge at the shelter asked journalists accompanying local deputy commissioner and a team of experts from Chittagong who visited the area on Thursday.

Halima Begum, a widow and mother of three young girls, suffered severe burns as hot winds blew from the cracks of her home during the tremor.

She went to a doctor in the upazila headquarters who could not find out the reasons for the burns and refused to treat her.

He advised Halima to go to the district headquarters. "How can I go there without a penny," she said.

Halima's hut collapsed in the quake forcing her to join the homeless in the primary school shelter along with her daughters.

Four other children of the area Afrina, 4, Moina, 4, Azad, 3, and a unknown one also suffered burns in the quake.

"They all go untreated as there is no doctor at the local Aimachhora union health complex," a local said.

Manik Chakma and Tarani Kumar Chakma of Orjanchhori village in Bhusanchhora union said all mud houses in the village and in the neighborhood collapsed.

He, however, could not give the figure. "Nobody, neither the upazila nirbahi officer (UNO) nor the DC, visited us," Manik said.

The exact number of the quake-hit families is not yet known. The deputy commissioner's office said they put only 260 families on a list of victims in Kolabunia.

DC Dr Jafar Ahmed Khan said three tonnes of food grains and Tk 10,000 were distributed among the people affected.

Red Crescent Society also distributed relief, he said.