Blaze razes 500 houses in Bangladesh Rohingya camp

Giant blaze leaves thousands homeless in Bangladesh Rohingya camp
AFP
1/14/2021
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Rohingya refugees search for their belongings after a fire broke out at Nayapara refugee camp in Bangladesh Thursday
A huge fire tore through a Rohingya refugee camp on Thursday destroying more than 550 shanty homes, but while 3,500 people were left homeless no serious casualties were reported, aid agencies said.
The blaze started when most people in the sprawling Nayapara camp were asleep. Tens of thousands of members of the Muslim minority who fled a military crackdown in neighbouring Myanmar in 2017 live in the overcrowded camp.
International aid agencies said in a joint statement the "devastating" fire took two hours to bring under control.

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