Last year, monsoon rains triggered landslides in Cox’s Bazar and the nearby Chittagong hill tracts, killing at least 170 people. The region is forecast to receive 2.5 metres of rainfall during the monsoon season – roughly triple what Britain gets in a year. “In just one area of the camp I discovered almost 20 families have had to be relocated and almost 30 houses have been damaged due to landslides,” she said. Nearly 29,000 people have been moved to new locations in advance of the monsoon but the risk of a tragedy remains high.Ĭaroline Glick from the UN Refugee Agency said many refugees were at risk of landslides as they lived on steep slopes. Many of the hills around the settlements have been cleared of trees to build shelters, making the land highly unstable. Some 200,000 Rohingya who live on hills around the refugee camps are at risk of death or injury from monsoon rains, officials and relief agencies have said. Landslides have so far killed at least 13 people this week, including a Rohingya boy who was crushed to death by a collapsing mud wall at the Kutupalong refugee camp on Monday. WATCH: Monsoon rains threaten Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh (2:23)
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