A landslide triggered by torrential rains killed three Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar District on Friday, according to rescue workers and a leader of the camp where the incident occurred.
The victims—a man and his two children—were living in Camp 14, one of 33 overcrowded camps in Cox’s Bazar housing more than a million Rohingya refugees.
They were among tens of thousands of refugees severely affected by downpours caused in part by remnants of Cyclone Yagi, which devastated a wide swathe of Southeast Asia, including central Myanmar, last week.
“I received a call from some people, who informed me of the landslide,” said Mohammed Noor, a rescue worker from Camp 14.
“We worked so hard, searching until around midnight. But two of the people we. . .
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