Last week’s devastating torrential rain almost submerged the south-eastern part of Bangladesh including main cities and Rohingya refugee camps.
Rohingya camps have seen more than a hundred landslides over the years and the last one which occurred on Monday has killed at least 5 Rohingya people, the exact number appears to be increasing on a day to day basis. Among those who are dead are a mother and child who were washed away due to the landslide.
(Hamid Hossain, a Rohingya man who used to live in slope of a hill trying to fix his makeshift as it was shattered on Monday’s landslide. Image credit: Al Jazeera)
Till now, more than fifteen hundred makeshifts have been destroyed due to landslides making refugees homeless overnight. Save the Children, an international non-governmental organization reports that “further bad weather could trigger a major humanitarian and health emergency leading to further deaths, injuries, mass displacement and the potential spread of water-borne diseases.”
The Bangladesh Army has been deployed to assist with humanitarian efforts in the area.
