Kutupalong, Bangladesh: A refugee girl died and five were injured in a landslide which occurred yesterday noon in the Kutupalong unregistered Arakanese Rohingya refugee camp, according to a camp committee member.

The landslide occurred when refugee children were digging earth at the bottom of a hill near the camp for repairing their huts, the committee member said.

Five refugee children and Amina Khatun (60) were digging earth from the hill base for repairing their huts when the incident occurred at noon. Other refugees rushed to the spot and rescued them within a few minutes, but one child died on the spot. The injured were sent to the nearby health center of the MSF, said Abul Kalam, a refugee from the camp.

Roome, (3) daughter of Nurmal Hakim died on the spot, Futienee (10) daughter of Gonu Meah was sent to the Chittagong Medical Hospital in a critical condition, Dilkayas (10) daughter of Omar Faruk was sent to Cox’s Bazaar Sadar Hospital, Mohamed Rashid (3) son of Gonu Meah and Kohinoor (4) daughter of Gonu Meah are resting in their hut after treatment at the MSF, the refugee said.

“My child was buried yesterday evening in the graveyard of the refugee camp,” said Nurmal Hakim.

“I lost my elder child,” he said tears rolling down his cheek.

The unregistered Kutupalong refugee camp now has about 45,000 refugees after Bangladesh authorities arrested and pushed back Arakanese Rohingyas, who are living in the hill tract, to Burma’s, Arakan State last month.

Most the refugees live in the hut, which is made of plastics, bushes and branch of trees on the top and mud at the bottom. To repair the bottom, refugees need mud so they were digging at the bottom of the hill.

Today, Md. Gias uddin Ahmed, Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Cox’s Bazar and Ukiya township officer visited the unregistered Kutupalong Arakanese Rohingya refugee camp and also checked the landslide area, said  a refugee elder from the camp.