More than 5,000 people were displaced after a massive fire swept through a Rohingya refugee camp in southern Bangladesh on Jan. 9, police said. The fire broke out at Camp 16 in Cox’s Bazar, where more than a million Rohingya refugees live, a spokesman for the Armed Police Battalion, Kamran Hossain, said. About 1,200 houses were reportedly engulfed in flames, although there have been no reports of casualties so far, he said. The cause of the fire is not yet clear, according to Mohammed Shamsud Douza, a government official in charge of refugees. “The fire started at 4:40 p.m. and was brought under control at around 6:30 p.m.,” Hossain told reporters, according to The National News. “Everything is gone. Many are without homes,” said Abu Taher, a Rohingya refugee. The Rohingya refugees came from Burma, also known as Myanmar, and have been denied citizenship since a Burmese citizenship law was enacted in …
Thousands of Bangladesh Rohingya Refugees Left Homeless After Fire Sweeps Camp
January 10, 2022
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