“It’s going to be a very, very challenging wet season. “It’s going to be landslides, flash floods, inundation,” Tommy Thompson, chief of emergency support and response for the World Food Program, told the New York Times. It is a site that was once forested but now lies barren, which only enhances the likelihood of catastrophic flooding. Scores of families who fled their Myanmar home in August live in makeshift structures on steep hillsides at the world's largest refugee camp. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees living in southern Bangladesh are facing 'grave danger' as seasonal monsoonal rains that could trigger flooding and possible landslides loom on the horizon.
