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Fire tears through Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar
At least 30 homes destroyed, no casualties reported.
A fire swept through a Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar, destroying at least 30 homes in the third such incident this month.
There were no reports of casualties in the incident at Camp 5 at Ukhiya upazila, said Superintendent Naiml Haque, chief of the Ukhiya-based Armed Police Battalion (APBn).
“Flames erupted at the Block B, Sub-blocks B/3 and D/2 around 2am. Soon after, the firefighters arrived and put out the fire.”
Naiml Haque, chief of the Ukhiya-based Armed Police Battalion (APBn)
“Flames erupted at the Block B, Sub-blocks B/3 and D/2 around 2am. Soon after, the firefighters arrived and put out the fire,” he said.
The cause of the blaze has not been established, said the senior police officer before adding they suspect it may have been an electric short-circuit.
Fires are a continual hazard in the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar, where more than one million people live in extremely crowded conditions, with bamboo and tarpaulin shelters packed closely together.
On January 9, hundreds of homes were destroyed in a fire at another Rohingya settlement in Cox’s Bazar’s Ukhiya. The fire started in camp 16 and raced through shelters, leaving more than 5,000 people homeless.
A week earlier, on January 2, another blaze tore through a Covid-19 treatment centre for Rohingya and destroyed 20 homes nearby at the Balukhali camp.
In March last year, a devastating fire killed at least 15 Rohingyas and burned down more than 10,000 homes.
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