Dhaka, Jul 6 (EFE).- At least 8 Rohingya refugees died after torrential rains triggered several landslides in the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar district, in southeastern Bangladesh, authorities said on Monday. The landslides occurred on Sunday night and affected several areas of the camps, Bangladesh’s Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner, Mizanur Rahman, told EFE. The fatalities were reported in at least three locations in Cox’s Bazar, divided into 33 highly congested refugee camps, where about 1.1 million people live, according to UNHCR. Rahman said that most of the victims were new arrivals who built shelters on the hillsides as they could not find space elsewhere in the camps. He added that the authorities were trying to relocate them away from vulnerable areas but were unable to do so in the last two days due to persistent rainfall. According to the official, among the victims are four members of the same family, who had dug into a hillside to build their shelter. Incidents in this refugee camp, the largest in the world according to the UN, are tragically common due to the precarious conditions of the shelters, most of which are made of bamboo and plastic sheeting. In January, a fire in the camp left more than 2,000 people homeless. Bangladesh has hosted massive influx of refugees from Myanmar since a wave of violence by its military in 2017, after which more than 700,000 people fled to settle mostly in the camps of the coastal region of Cox’s Bazar. Despite Dhaka’s efforts to begin their repatriation to Myanmar, and after several failed attempts, this has not yet begun due to instability in the neighboring country. EFE am-lgm/pd