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Rohingya Muslims who escaped the Myanmar army now brace for a threat they can't outrun: Rain

UKHALI, Bangladesh - When the rain came, as Mohammad Rafiq knew it would, there was nowhere to run.

The water oozed under the tarpaulin wall of his family's makeshift shelter, turning the dirt floor to mud and soaking the sacks of rice that represented most of their food. Gusts of wind ripped the bamboo-and-plastic roof, tossing the pieces like playing cards.

The brief storm last week offered a grim but probably mild preview of the dangers facing more than 900,000 Rohingya Muslims crammed into refugee camps in southern Bangladesh, the wettest region of a country regularly pulverized by cyclones, flash

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