Huge fire broke out in Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh, thousands of people left homeless
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An official of the United Nations and the fire department gave this information. No casualty has been reported so far in the fire that broke out at the Balukhali camp in Cox’s Bazar, Fire Department official Emdadul Haque said.
A massive fire broke out on Sunday at a refugee camp packed with Rohingya Muslims in southern Bangladesh, leaving thousands homeless. An official of the United Nations and the fire department gave this information. No casualty has been reported so far in the fire that broke out at the Balukhali camp in Cox’s Bazar, Fire Department official Emdadul Haque said.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Bangladesh tweeted that Rohingya refugees were working with the volunteer agency and its partners to put out the fire, but gave no further details. Over one million Rohingya refugees have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh over the past few decades. Of these, 7.4 lakh people reached Bangladesh in August 2017, when the Myanmar army began a brutal crackdown.
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