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Aid agencies have been warning of the potential for catastrophe as heavy rains [http://thesaurus.com/browse/lash%20Cox%27s lash Cox's] Bazar district<br><br>Landslides triggered by monsoon rains killed at least five children Wednesday near camps on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border housing one million Rohingya refugees, police said.<br><br>Aid agencies have been warning of the potential for catastrophe as heavy rains lash Cox's Bazar district, where many of the huge concentration of refugees live on exposed hillsides.<br><br>The latest victims, who were not Rohingya refugees, died after three days of heavy rain set off a torrent of mud, according to police.<br><br>"Four children from the same family were sleeping when they were buried under a chunk of hill as it gave way early this morning," Cox's Bazar police station chief Fariduddin Khandaker told AFP.<br><br>Another six year-old child died in the neighbouring town of Ramu, police added.<br><br>The two towns are close to Kutupalong, the world's largest refugee camp, where more than half a million Rohingya live in tarpaulin and bamboo shanties, mainly on hills where trees have been torn down to make way for the influx.<br><br>Rohingya have converged on Cox's Bazar after violence in Myanmar in recent years and some 700,000 have arrived since August last year when the Buddhist-dominated country's military launched a crackdown which the UN has said could constitute ethnic cleansing.<br><br>Landslides have killed at least 18 people in the region since last month, including a Rohingya boy crushed to death by a collapsing mud wall at Kutupalong.<br><br>Some 200,000 Rohingya who live on hills around the refugee camps are at risk in the monsoon  [https://burmatourist.com/things-to-know-about-the-myanmar-map burma map] rains, according to disaster relief officials.<br><br>Around 37,000 people have been moved to safer locations ahead of the monsoon, Bangladesh's  [https://burmatourist.com/things-to-know-about-the-myanmar-map myanmar map] refugee commissioner Mohammad Abul Kalam told AFP.<br><br>He said authorities and relief agencies were "on alert" after three days of non-stop rains raised the risk of tragedy.<br><br>Last year, monsoon landslides in Cox's Bazar and the nearby Chittagong hill [http://scp-Knowledge.org/?s=tracts%20killed tracts killed] at least 170 people.<br><br>Aid agencies say waterborne disease are also on the rise as flood water mingles with latrines.<br><br>Advertisement