Thousands of Bangladesh Rohingya Refugees Left Homeless After Fire Sweeps Camp

Thousands of Bangladesh Rohingya Refugees Left Homeless After Fire Sweeps Camp
A fire at a Balukhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on March 22, 2021. Courtesy of Rohingya Right Team/MD Arakani/Handout via Reuters
Aldgra Fredly
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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.

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