Cox's Bazar: Rainfall at regular intervals is making life difficult for both tourists and incoming Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar on Thursday.

The sandy beaches at Kolatoli, Shugandha and Labony Point experienced a lesser number of visitors than expected earlier, reports news agency UNB.

"Not many customers are out in the open today," said Mong Rakhine, an oyster engraver at Kolatoli beach market, "Thanks to this rain, people are not coming out of their hotels."

Most of the eminent hotels in the city are in full capacity, as many have flocked due to the Durga Puja holidays, said Md Shah Alam, a front-desk executive at Ocean Paradise Hotel.

The influx of Rohingyas at Teknaf's Shah Porir Dwip is also taking place at a slow pace, as the rain is softening the makeshift muddy roads.

"Most of the Rohingyas have to overcome the muddy path barefoot," said Md Abdul Malek, a volunteer at Shah Porir Dwip Primary School, who receives them along with other volunteers and allows them to take refuge on the school premises, offers food and directs them to the next batch of volunteers who escort them from one coast of the river to another, where a relief camp awaits them.

He added that this process has slowed down thanks to the rain, which was still falling during the late evening, as of writing this report.

"We came as a group of eight from the same village of Noapara, near the border," said Ali, a Rohingya, who entered Bangladesh late Wednesday.

Ali mentioned that throughout their journey from entering Teknaf till receiving medical aid at Shah Porir Dwip it has been raining.