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Bangladesh: Fire destroyed several homes and killed seven in Rohingya camp
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COX’S BAZAAR, 23 March, 2021 (TON): On Monday, a huge fire swept through a Rohingya refugee camp in southern Bangladesh that destroyed thousands of homes and killed at least seven people.
Shahdat Hossain, a senior station officer at Cox's Bazar Fire Service said, our personnel and locals are working to recover the bodies of seven Rohingya people. Of them, two were children.
Louise Donovan, spokesperson for U.N. refugee agency in Cox's Bazar said, "Fire services, rescue and response teams and volunteers are at the scene to try to control the fire and prevent it spreading further."
Mohammed Shamsud Douza, the deputy Bangladesh government official in charge of refugees, said authorities were trying to control the blaze.
Rohingya refugees in the camps said many homes were burned down and several people had died, but neither the authorities nor the UNHCR could confirm the number of deaths.
However, the cause of the blaze has not been established, the media reported.
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