‘This Is Like a Nightmare’: Thousands Displaced as Floods Hit Bangladesh Rohingya Camps

General view of a flooded area following heavy monsoon rains at Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on July 27, 2021. Arakan Times/via Reuters

Heavy monsoon rains triggered landslides and flash floods in refugees camps displacing thousands of Rohingya Muslims in southeastern Bangladesh this week, U.N. and other officials said on Friday, with further heavy rainfall expected.

At least six Rohingya, including three children, died in landslides and flooding while 15 Bangladeshis were killed and more than 200,000 stranded by flooding in Cox’s Bazar, said Mamunur Rashid, the district administrator.