DHAKA, 01 August 2021, (TON): Oficials said “monsoon floods and landslides have cut off more than 300,000 people in villages across southeast Bangladesh and killed at least 20 people, including six Rohingya refugees.”

The region along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border where nearly one million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar are in camps has been battered by torrential rain since Monday.

Mamunur Rashid, the district administrator, said “the floods have stranded some 306,000 people in Cox’s Bazar district. At least 70 villages have been submerged by floods.”

He added “at least 20 people have died in floods and landslides including six Rohingya refugees,” he added.”

Officials said that about 36,000 people have been moved into schools and cyclone shelters.

“Many homes are waterlogged. Thousands of people have not been able to get out for the last three days. The roads are all blocked,” Tipu Sultan, a councillor in remote Jhilwanja Union, said.

Earlier this week Bangladesh evacuated 10,000 Rohingya from around refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar because of the storms.