Dhaka: At least six Rohingya Muslims, including children, were killed and several injuries on Tuesday after heavy rains triggered landslides in refugee camps in South Bangladesh, officials said.
“So far we have information on five people who died in landslides in camps and one child was swept away by the flood,” Mohammad Shamsud Doza, a senior official of the Bangladesh government responsible for the refugees, said.
He said there were children between landslide victims.
Other government officials said rainy season rain for the past two days flooded most refugee camps.
Nearly one million Rohingya lived in cock-camps in the BAZAR COX border district in Bangladesh, the settlement of the largest refugees in the world, since running away from military crackdown in the country Rakhine Myanmar almost four years ago.
The Bangladesh weather office said it was hoped that heavy rain would continue for the next few days.
Rohingya refugees mostly live in huts made of bamboo and plastic sheets attached to steep, naked hills, and floods further worsen the condition of their lives.
“Monsun and landslides make our situation even more precarious,” Rohingya refugees, Mohammad Ismail, told Reuters.