Refugee camp fire

 

A fire at a refugee camp in Bangladesh has left 12,000 people without shelter. The camp in the country's Cox's Bazar region houses approximately 1 million Rohingya refugees who fled persecution in Myanmar. No casualties were reported but the fire on Sunday destroyed 2,000 shelters, at least 35 mosques, and 21 refugee learning centers. Police have detained one suspect as they continue to investigate whether the fire was the result of sabotage.  The refugee camp in southeast Bangladesh is the largest in the world, according to the Danish Refugee Council. Most of the people there fled a military crackdown against the Rohingya minority in neighboring Myanmar, which has a mainly Buddhist population. There were 60 cases of arson in Rohingya camps between January 2021 and December 2022, according to a Bangladesh defense ministry report.