Eight people died in a landslide at a girls’ school in Bangladesh

A landslide at a girls’ school in a refugee camp in Bangladesh has killed seven students and a teacher.

The Center for Islamic Studies in the coastal town of Cox’s Bazar was buried in mud and debris on Wednesday afternoon, prompting a massive search and rescue effort. It is not clear how many people were in the school.

The country has been battered by heavy rains since Sunday, with several deadly landslides reported in Cox’s Bazar.

More than a million Rohingya refugees flee Myanmar’s deadly military crackdown and live in the world’s largest refugee settlement.

Refugee Relief and Return Commissioner Mohammad Mizanur Rahman said that rescue workers pulled 13 people out of the mud that burned their school huts and eight of them died.

“Some of them are seven, eight, 11 or 12-year-old children,” local district officer Panna Akter told BBC Bangla.

The other five children were taken to hospital for treatment.