Everything burnt to ashes: Fire at Rohingya refugees camp in Bangladesh destroys properties
The refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar are liable to such blazes. An enormous hearth in March 2021 killed at the least 15 refugees and destroyed over 10,000 properties.
Dhaka,UPDATED: Mar 6, 2023 02:07 IST
Fire burns within the Rohingya refugee camp in Balukhali in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, March 5, 2023 (Photo: Reuters)
By Reuters:
A giant hearth at a camp for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh destroyed properties and despatched thick black clouds of smoke by means of the world on Sunday earlier than being introduced below management.
The blaze erupted at Camp 11 in Cox’s Bazar, a southeastern border district the place greater than 1,000,000 Rohingya refugees reside. Most of the refugees fled a military-led crackdown in Myanmar in 2017, and the fireplace left a few of them homeless once more.
“We currently don’t have an estimate for damages but there are no reports of casualties,” Rafiqul Islam, further police superintendent at Cox’s Bazar advised Reuters.
He added that the blaze was below management and senior officers from the fireplace, police and refugee aid departments have been on the website. Faruque Ahmed, an area police official, stated the reason for the fireplace was not clear.
Neither police official gave an estimate for the variety of properties destroyed.
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“I couldn’t save anything. Everything burnt to ashes. Many are without homes. I don’t know what will happen to us,” stated 40-year-old refugee Selim Ullah, a father of six youngsters.
“When we were in Myanmar we faced lots of problems… our houses were burned down, he said. “Now it has occurred once more.”
The refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar are prone to such blazes. A massive fire in March 2021 killed at least 15 refugees and destroyed over 10,000 homes.
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Mar 6, 2023
