Bangladesh Evacuates 10,000 Rohingya After Landslides, Floods

Tens of thousands of Rohingya have cleared forests on the surrounding hills and set up shelters that have since been met with landslides every monsoon season.

Bangladesh has evacuated 10,000 Rohingya from around refugee camps on the Myanmar border after monsoon landslides and flash floods killed at least 14 people, officials said Wednesday. After three days of torrential rain, the refugees, most of whom fled a military crackdown in Myanmar in 2017, were moved from hilly slopes around the Balukhali camp in Cox's Bazar, refugee commissioner Shah Rezwan Hayat said. Tens of thousands of Rohingya who could not find room in the camps have cleared forests on the surrounding hills and set up shelters that have since been met with landslides every monsoon season. "We have brought some 10,000 Rohingya to safe places after their shelters were hit by heavy rain and landslides," Hayat told AFP.