Desperate Rohingya refugees tackle huge blaze in Cox’s Bazar camps

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A huge fire swept through a Rohingya refugee camp in southern Bangladesh, destroying thousands of homes and killing several people in the worst blaze to hit the settlement in recent years. Dramatic footage shows refugee camp residents trying to extinguish the spreading fire with buckets of water. Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar said many homes were burned down and several people had died, but neither the authorities nor the UNHCR could confirm the number of deaths. The cause of the blaze has not been established

Bangladesh: ‘massive’ fire in Rohingya refugee camps forces 20,000 to flee

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