More than 5,000 people were displaced after a massive fire broke out at a Rohingya refugee camp in southern Bangladesh on Sunday, police said, but the cause of the fire has not been determined. A spokesman for the Armed Police Battalion, Kamran Hossain, said that the fire broke out at Camp 16 in Cox’s Bazar, where more than a million Rohingya refugees live. Hossain asserted that about 1,200 houses were reportedly engulfed in flames, displacing over 5,000 people, but there have been no reports of casualties so far. “The fire started at 4:40 p.m. and was brought under control at around 6:30 p.m.,” Hossain told reporters, The National News reported. Mohamad Shamsud Douza, a Bangladesh government official in charge of refugees, said emergency workers had brought the fire under control, but the cause of the blaze has not been established. “Everything is gone. Many are without homes,” said Abu Taher, …
Thousands Left Homeless After Bangladesh Rohingya Refugee Camp Engulfed in Flames
January 10, 2022
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