Rohingya children facing 'hell on earth', warns Unicef

The children who make up most of the nearly 600,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled violence in Burma are experiencing a "hell on earth" in overcrowded, muddy and squalid refugee camps in neighbouring Bangladesh, Unicef has said.

The UN children's agency has issued a report that documents the plight of children who account for 58% of the refugees who have poured into Cox's Bazar over the last eight weeks. Report author Simon Ingram said about one in five children in the area are "acutely malnourished".