Refugees who fled Myanmar endure dire conditions at impromptu camps as they wait for aid amid torrential rain.

AVA- Hundreds of Rohingya, including children, were jostling to get hold of aid packages being thrown from trucks at Balukhali in the Bangladeshi city of Cox's Bazar bordering Myanmar.

Women, many with babies on their shoulders, stood in torrential rain in the hope of getting food, tarpaulin and clothes distributed by local Bangladeshi people.

Chaos was all around at Balukhali, where a large number of Rohingya have taken refuge, as the rain added misery on the persecuted community.

More than half of the estimated 412,000 Rohingya, who have escaped Myanmar's military crackdown, live in makeshift sites without proper shelter, clean drinking water and sanitation.

On Sunday, police and army officials were checking vehicles coming from the camps towards Cox's Bazar city, a day after the Bangladesh government announced restrictions on the refugees' movement.

Arefa, along with hundreds of fellow Rohingya, was among the crowd waiting for the much-needed aid.

She was drenched, holding her two-year-old daughter Minara on her shoulder. Arefa was crying. She said there was no food for her and her two children.

"I do not have food, no shelter and no way to cook anything. I have yet to get any relief," she said with tears pouring down. "If I get aid I eat, otherwise I go hungry."

Arefa, who arrived here two days ago from Lambaguna village in Akyab district, said she is 40, but she looked much younger. Her husband, Nabi Hussain, was shot dead by the Myanmar military, she said.

A fellow Rohingya offered her a small tarpaulin tent until she arranges her own. But at the private aid distribution centre in Balukhali, she had little luck.