Path of Cyclone Mora through Rohingya refugee camps [AFP]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nBeyond the camps, officials were also assessing the damage elsewhere. The chief administrator said 17,500 houses had been completely destroyed and 35,000 partially damaged in the district.<\/p>\n
“After the storm, there’s an acute crisis of food, shelter, health services, water and sanitation facilities in the makeshift settlements,” said Sanjukta Sahany, local head of the International Organization for Migration which coordinates relief in some of the camps.<\/p>\n
The refugee camps suffered extensive damage, and there were also pockets of damage in the broader community, but no reports of casualties, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said.<\/p>\n
Omar Farukh, a community leader in Kutupalong camp – one of several camps for Rohingya in Cox’s Bazar – described the misery of those left behind.<\/p>\n
“We have passed a difficult time. We had no tin or plastic sheets above our heads and almost all of us passed the night in the rain,” Farukh told Reuters by telephone.<\/p>\n
“We tried to save our belongings, whatever we have, with pieces of plastic sheet,” he said before adding agency officials visited the Kutupalong camp to see what was needed.<\/p>\n
Al Jazeera\u2019s Tanvir Chowdhury, reporting from Kutupalong camp, said authorities and NGOs were not present in the camp and refugees had to repair the damage themselves.<\/p>\n
“They are left on their own,” he said.<\/p>\n
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