An enormous fireplace raced via a crammed refugee camp for Rohingya in southern Bangladesh on Sunday, leaving hundreds homeless, a fireplace official and the United Nations stated.
No casualties had been reported instantly on the Balukhali camp in Cox’s Bazar district, stated Emdadul Haque, a fireplace service official.
The UNHCR in Bangladesh stated in a tweet that Rohingya refugee volunteers had been responding to the hearth with the company and its companions offering assist. It offered no additional particulars.
Multiple million Rohingya refugees have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar over a number of many years, together with about 740,000 who crossed the border beginning in August 2017, when the Myanmar navy launched a brutal crackdown.
Circumstances in Myanmar have worsened since a navy takeover in 2021, and makes an attempt to ship them again have failed.