Before it was put out on Sunday, a huge fire at a camp for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh destroyed homes and sent thick, black smoke through the area.
More than a million Rohingya refugees live in Cox’s Bazar, a border region in the southeast, where the fire started in Camp 11. In 2017, a military-led crackdown in Myanmar forced the majority of the refugees to flee, and the fire made some of them destitute once more.
“We currently don’t have an estimate for damages but there are no reports of casualties,” Rafiqul Islam, additional police superintendent at Cox’s Bazar told Reuters.
Senior officials from the fire, police, and refugee relief departments were there, he noted, and the fire was under control. A local police official named Faruque Ahmed said it was unknown what caused the fire.
The number of homes damaged was not estimated by any police official.
“I couldn’t save anything. Everything burnt to ashes. Many are without homes. I don’t know what will happen to us,” said 40-year-old refugee Selim Ullah, a father of six children.
“When we were in Myanmar we faced lots of problems… our houses were burned down, he said. “Now it has happened again.”
Such fires frequently break out in Cox’s Bazar’s refugee camps. Almost 10,000 homes were destroyed and at least 15 refugees died in a huge fire in March 2021.
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