Seven students and a teacher died in Bangladesh after a landslide devastated a girls’ school inside a refugee camp. The Islamic studies center in the coastal city of Cox’s Bazar was buried under mud and debris on Wednesday afternoon, prompting frantic search and rescue efforts. It is unclear how many people were inside the school.
Seven students and a teacher died in Bangladesh after a landslide devastated a girls’ school inside a refugee camp.
The Islamic studies center in the coastal city of Cox’s Bazar was buried under mud and debris on Wednesday afternoon, prompting frantic search and rescue efforts. It is unclear how many people were inside the school.
The country has been hit by monsoon rains since Sunday, with several deadly landslides reported in Cox’s Bazar.
More than a million Rohingya live there, in what is the world’s largest refugee settlement, after fleeing a deadly military crackdown in Myanmar.
Rescuers pulled 13 people from the mud that engulfed their school hut, eight of whom died, Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner Mohammed Mizanur Rahman said.
“Some of them are seven, eight, 11 or 12 years old,” Panna Akhter, a local district official, told BBC Bangla.
The other five children were taken to the hospital for treatment.
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