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12 thousand people homeless / Bangladesh investigates the fire in the refugee camp

2023-03-06 07:38:00, Kosova & Bota CNA
12 thousand people homeless / Bangladesh investigates the fire in the refugee
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Bangladeshi authorities are investigating the cause of a massive fire at a Rohingya refugee camp that has left 12,000 people homeless.

No casualties were reported, but the fire destroyed 2,000 shelters as it spread rapidly.

Police are investigating whether the fire was an act of sabotage. According to local media, one person has been arrested.

The camp in the southeast is believed to be the largest refugee camp in the world. Most of its inhabitants, Rohingya refugees, had fled persecution in neighboring Myanmar.

On Monday, hundreds of people had returned to the Cox's Bazar area to see what they could salvage from the wreckage.

"About 2,000 shelters have been burnt down, leaving around 12,000 forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals homeless," Bangladesh's refugee commissioner Mijanur Rahman told AFP news agency.

The fire was brought under control within three hours, but at least 35 mosques and 21 refugee education centers were destroyed.

It will be difficult to relocate some 12,000 people affected by the fire, given the difficult conditions in the camp, said Hardin Lang of Refugees International.

Providing basic services to those people in other parts of the camp would also be a challenge because many services, health clinics and schools have been destroyed./ CNA.al





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