Massive, makeshift refugee camps are sprawling over farms and open land in southern Bangladesh as more than 420,000 Rohingya Muslims flee violent attacks in their predominantly Buddhist homeland of Myanmar. The images were released shortly before a truck filled with aid for refugees in the camps veered off a road and fell into a ditch, killing at least nine aid workers. No clean water, hygiene facilitiesUntil now, the assumption was that the size of existing refugee camps had doubled in the past few weeks. Refugee camps in Bangladesh have grown dramatically since Rohingya Muslims began fleeing violence last month in their nearby homeland of Myanmar. The UN says that unlike formal refugee camps, these new sites lack drinking water, toilets, soap or buckets.

Source: CBC News September 21, 2017 14:02 UTC