A fire in a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh burned about 2,000 homes, leaving about 12,000 homeless.
Yesterday (March 5), a fire broke out in a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh. This left tens of thousands of refugees now homeless.
The fire started in Refugee Camp 11 in Cox’s Bazar. southeast of the country More than 1 million Rohingya refugees live here, most fleeing a military conflict in Myanmar in 2017, and the fire has left some of them homeless again.
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Bangladesh Refugee Commissioner Mijanur Rahman said: Camp accommodation made of bamboo and flammable canvas When a fire happened, the fire spread quickly.
“About 2,000 shelters were burned, leaving about 12,000 Myanmar Rohingya homeless,” he said.
Rafikul Islam, Cox’s Bazar Superintendent of Police, said: “We don’t have a damage assessment at the moment. But there were no reports of injuries or deaths.”
while Farouk Ahmed, a local police officer said The cause of this fire is not yet known. But at least 35 mosques and 21 learning centers for refugees were also burnt down.
One of the refugees, Selim Ullah, 40, who has six children, said he was unable to help. “Everything burns to ashes. Many people are homeless. I don’t know what will happen to us… when we were in Myanmar. We face many problems. Our house was on fire. And now it’s happening again. “
The refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar has a history of frequent fires. According to a Bangladesh defense ministry report last month, between January 2021 and December 2022, there were 222 fires in Rohingya camps, 60 of which were covert incidents of arson.
Compiled from The Guardian
Image from AFP
