Fire at Bangladesh Rohingya camp kills boy, leaves 2,000 homeless
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- 10 Mar 2022
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Sixth fire this year at the world’s biggest refugee camp kills a six-year-old boy and destroys 300 homes.
A blaze has swept through a Rohingya refugee camp in southeastern Bangladesh, killing a six-year-old boy and leaving about 2,000 people homeless in the sixth fire this year to hit the world’s largest refugee camp, officials and witnesses said.
The fire on Tuesday gutted parts of the Kutupalong camp in Cox’s Bazar, a border district where more than a million mostly Muslim Rohingya refugees live — most having fled a military-led crackdown in neighbouring Myanmar in 2017.
The blaze follows a massive fire in January, which destroyed 1,200 shelters and left more than 5,000 people homeless, and four smaller fires between January and March. Read More...
