In brief
A deadly landslide on Wednesday slammed a girls’ school inside the world’s largest refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, killing seven students and a teacher. The disaster is part of a series of deadly monsoon‑driven landslides that have already claimed more than a dozen lives in the region. With over a million Rohingya living in makeshift homes on steep hillsides, the tragedy underscores how precarious their living conditions are. Rescue crews pulled 13 individuals from the mud, but eight died. Authorities warn of further landslides as heavy rain is forecast for the coming days.
A deadly landslide on Wednesday slammed a girls’ school inside the world’s largest refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, killing seven students and a teacher.
The school – an Islamic study centre – was buried by mud and debris after the sudden slide. Rescue teams pulled 13 people from the mud; eight died, including a teacher and several children ranging from seven to twelve years old.
The disaster comes amid the region’s relentless monsoon, which has triggered multiple deadly landslides in recently. More than a million Rohingya refugees, who fled a brutal crackdown in Myanmar in 2017, live in cramped, bamboo‑and‑tarpaulin shacks on steep hillsides.
Local officials warned that further heavy rain could unleash more landslides and floods, prompting evacuations in high‑risk areas.
The tragedy underscores how climate, geography and human displacement intersect, putting vulnerable communities in a constant state of peril.
