Five feared dead, thousands flee ‘massive fire’ at Rohingya camp in Bangladesh

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Tue, 2021-03-23 02:20

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh: Five people are feared dead and at least 20,000 Rohingya have fled a huge blaze engulfing shanty homes at refugee camps in southeastern Bangladesh, officials said Monday, in the third fire to hit the settlements in four days.
Nearly one million of the Muslim minority from Myanmar — many of whom fled a military crackdown in their homeland in 2017 — live in cramped and squalid conditions at the camps in the Cox’s Bazar district.

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