A fire swept through a Rohingya refugee camp in southeastern Bangladesh on Sunday, destroying hundreds of homes, according to officials and wit-nesses, though there were no immediate reports of casualties.
The blaze hit Camp 16 in Cox’s Bazar, a border district where than a million Rohingya refugees live, with most having fled a military-led crackdown in Myanmar in 2017.
Mohammed Shamsud Douza, a Bangladesh government official in charge of refugees, said emergency workers had brought the fire under con-trol. The cause of the blaze has not been established, he added.
“Everything is gone. Many are without homes,” said Abu Taher, a Rohingya refugee.—Reuters
