Bazar Coz, Bangladesh: Flood Monsun and landslides have cut more than 300,000 people in the villages throughout the Southeast Bangladesh and killed at least 20 people including six Rohingya refugees, officials said Friday officials.
The area along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border where nearly one million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar are in camps have been hit by heavy rain since Monday.
“Floods have raided around 306,000 people in Bazar Cox Regency.
At least 70 villages have been submerged by floods,” Mamunur Rashid, said the district administrator, told AFP.
“At least 20 people have died in floods and landslides including six Rohingya refugees,” he added.
About 36,000 people have been transferred to the school and cyclone shelter, officials said.
“Many houses are inundated Earlier this week Bangladesh evacuated 10,000 Rohingya from around a refugee camp at Bazaar Cox due to a storm.
Help workers said the locking of Coronavirus in camps, following a large surge in cases, had affected rescue work because access was limited.
About 740,000 Rohingya escaped from the State of Rakhine Myanmar in 2017 after security forces launched Countsown that the United Nations said that it might be a genocide.