Heavy flooding hits Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh

Thousands of shelters in Rohingya refugee camps in southern Bangladesh have been flooded after heavy rainfall battered the region for more than a week, deepening the despair among those living there. The flooding has affected large parts of the Kutupalong refugee camp, which has existed since the early 1990s but was expanded on uneven, landslide-prone terrain in 2017, when it became the world’s largest refugee camp for the 700,000 Rohingya people escaping military massacres in Myanmar, called 'genocidal' by the UN. While natural disasters are an annual occurrence in the region, activists say refugees there are highly vulnerable to the rapidly changing climate Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube ► http://bit.ly/guardianwiressub At least six Rohingya refugees killed as floods hit camps in Bangladesh ► https://www.theguardian.com/global-de... The Guardian publishes independent journalism, made possible by supporters. Contribute to The Guardian today ► https://bit.ly/3uhA7zg Website ► https://www.theguardian.com Facebook ►  / theguardian   Twitter ►   / guardian   Instagram ► https://instagram/guardian