7 thousand Rohingyas were displaced again
| An early morning fire in a Rohingya refugee camp in southeastern Bangladesh destroyed 800 shelters and left about 7,000 people homeless, according to the United Nations. |
According to the report of Fars News Agency International Group, according to the Bangladeshi authorities, the fire in the Rohingya refugee camp in the southeast of this country, which occurred in the early hours of this Sunday, destroyed 800 shelters and killed thousands. It left one person homeless.
It took the fire service and Rohingya volunteers about three hours to put out the fire at Camp 5 in the border area with Myanmar shortly before 1 am. to control
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced that about seven thousand people were made homeless and about 120 centers, including mosques and health centers, were damaged.
About one million people from Myanmar’s Muslim minority live in overcrowded camps made of bamboo and plastic in the Cox’s Bazar border region of Bangladesh, most of them in They fled military repression in 2017.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees announced that the cause of the fire is currently unknown and “the government authorities (Bangladesh) assure us that an investigation will be carried out”.
Fires usually occur in overcrowded camps with temporary structures in the area. The Great March Fire 2021 took the lives of at least 15 refugees and destroyed more than 10,000 houses. More than 90 centers, including hospitals and educational centers, were left homeless.
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