At least 5 children die in monsoon landslide at a Rohingya camp in Bangladesh
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\nA landslide caused by monsoon rains killed at least five children as it swept through an Islamic school at a camp for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh\u2019s southeastern Cox\u2019s Bazar district, NBC reported.<\/p>\n
More than 1 million refugees live in the camp. Dollar Tripura, local chief of the Fire Service and Civil Defense, said the landslide hit as children were attending classes.<\/p>\n
Tripura said they rescued another five injured children but suspected that more could be buried.<\/p>\n
The rescue operation continued Wednesday evening. Three days earlier, landslides killed at least eight people at Rohingya camps in the area.<\/p>\n
The weather office in the South Asian nation\u2019s capital, Dhaka, forecast more rain in the coming days.<\/p>\n
Authorities said they were relocating refugees from at-risk hilly areas and more than 1,000 people were already relocated. They said the refugees are often reluctant to leave their makeshift homes despite warnings.<\/p>\n
Bangladesh has urged the international community for years to help the country begin repatriation of the refugees to Myanmar, but the process is stalled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At least 5 children die in monsoon landslide at a Rohingya camp in Bangladesh —————————————– A landslide caused by monsoon rains killed at least five children as it swept through an Islamic school at a camp for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh\u2019s southeastern Cox\u2019s Bazar district, NBC reported. More than 1 million refugees live in the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[6067],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bangladesh"],"yoast_head":"\n