, Oct. 16 -- The number of Rohingya refugees who left Bangladesh by boats in the first six months of the year tripled compared to last year, as conditions for children in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar camps continue to deteriorate and funding cuts reduce essential services, said Save the Children.

About 1,088 Rohingya refugees embarked on sea journeys from Bangladesh during the first six months of this year, with around 87 of them children, compared to 364 people during the same period last year, according to figures from the UNHCR.

Save the Children has called on donors to urgently increase funding for education, livelihoods and improved security in the camps to address the desperation driving dangerous sea journeys.

It urged regional gove...