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title: "Fire in Rohingya refugee camps leave thousands homeless"
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# Fire in Rohingya refugee camps leave thousands homeless

Source: https://theislamicinformation.com/news/fire-in-rohingya-refugee-camps-leave-thousands-homeless/
Updated: 2022-01-10

Police said the fire has left thousands of Rohingya homeless after destroying parts of their refugee camp in southeastern Bangladesh.

Al-Jazeera reported that eight hundred thousand of Myanmar's persecuted Muslims live in a network of camps in Bangladesh's border district of [Cox's Bazar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox%27s_Bazar). A United Nations investigation concluded that the military crackdown in 2017 was committed with "genocidal intent".

Kamran Hossain, a spokesman for the Armed Police Battalion, which oversees security in the camp, said that 1,200 houses were destroyed in the fire.

More than 5,000 people were left homeless as a result of the fire, which began at Camp 16 and spread through bamboo and tarpaulin shelters, he said.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2VD2ot02Jk

AFP reports that the fire started at 4:40 pm and was brought under control by 6:30 pm.

Bangladesh government official Muhammad Shamsud Douza said the fire had been put out by emergency workers. No cause for the fire has been determined, he said.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymuOKfo4ph8

Myanmar's Rohingya refugees have for years sought refuge in Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia. In response to calls from aid organizations, Indonesia allowed a boat with Rohingya refugees stranded off its coast last month to dock after it became stranded.