Overview
- The landslides that struck on Monday killed at least eight Rohingya refugees, including children, and left several others injured after multiple hillside collapses buried makeshift shelters.
- Continuous heavy rain and hillside torrents loosened soil on steep, deforested slopes, causing bamboo-and-plastic homes to be swept away or buried under mud and debris.
- Local rescuers and police recovered the bodies and handed them to families, while camp leaders and relief agencies began moving residents out of high-risk hill areas.
- The Bangladesh Meteorological Department has forecast more heavy rain over the coming days, keeping officials on alert for further landslides and flash floods in the camps.
- More than 1.2 million Rohingya live in overcrowded camps on unstable hillsides, a pattern of repeated monsoon disasters that has killed dozens in recent years and that could be worsened by renewed fighting in Myanmar driving new arrivals to the border.