- Saturday, April 27, 2024
By: Keerthi Mohan
Heavy monsoon rains in Bangladesh has caused severe structural damages to camps hosting more than one million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). “The situation in the camps is growing more desperate with every drop of rain that falls,” Manuel Pereira, IOM’s Emergency Coordinator in Cox’s Bazar, the district in south-east Bangladesh, was quoted as saying by PTI. “You have close to one million people living on hilly, muddy terrain with no trees or shrubs left to hold the ground in place. People and their makeshift shelters are being washed away in the rains.”…
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