48,000 Babies Will Be Born in Rohingya Camps This Year, Aid Group Says
An international aid agency projects that 48,000 babies will be born this year in overcrowded refugee camps for the Rohingya Muslims who have fled to Bangladesh from neighboring Myanmar.
Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on Sept. 21, 2017.
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Dhaka, Bangladesh (AP) -- An aid agency projects 48,000 babies will be born this year in the refugee camps for Rohingya Muslims who have fled to Bangladesh after military operations against them in Myanmar.
The babies will probably be born in tents in unsanitary conditions and will be at increased risk of disease and malnutrition, and of dying before age 5, Save the Children warned in its report Friday.