Ex-UN chief concerned over monsoon floods in Rohingya camps

Ex-UN chief concerned over monsoon floods in Rohingya camps | iNFOnews.ca
In this Wednesday, July 10, 2019 photo, former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, center, gestures as he is briefed by Bangladesh foreign minister A.K.Abdul Momen, right during a vist to the Kutupalong Rohingya refugees camp in the southern coastal district of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Ban has expressed concern that monsoon floods could threaten the lives of Rohingya refugees in sprawling camps in Bangladesh. (AP Photo/ Al-emrun Garjon)

KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh – Former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed concern over risks of monsoon floods threatening the lives of Rohingya refugees in sprawling camps in Bangladesh.

Ban visited the Kutupalong camp on Wednesday in the southern coastal district of Cox’s Bazar where more than 1 million Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar have fled military-backed persecution in their home country.

Ban says, “I am deeply saddened and dismayed by what I have seen here.”

UNICEF says thousands of Rohingya children and families living in the camps are at risk from flooding and landslides.

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