A devastating fire once again raged in the Rohingya camp in Ukhiya upazila of Cox鈥檚 Bazar to destroy nearly 200 shelters and other facilities, in a gap of just one week when another fire gutted houses and structures at the same camp. No casualties were reported so far in the Saturday鈥檚 fire.
Captain Md Amir Zafar of 8 Armed Police Battalion (APBN) said that three units from the fire service brought the fire under control after one and a half hours.
He also said that a fire broke out suddenly at Kathaltali market of Tajnimarkhola Rohingya Camp number 13 at about 12:45pm and spread through camp very quickly.
The APBN police immediately informed the Ukhiya Fire Service Station on receiving the information.
Captain Amir could not say anything about the source of the fire.
Earlier on May 24, another fire incident burned down around 250 houses and other structures. No casualties were reported in that fire.
This was the third major fire incident in the Rohingya camp this year with the first such incident destroyed around 800 shelters on January 7.
Some 120 facilities, including learning centres, mosques, healthcare centres, latrines and bathing facilities, water points, and solar street lights, were also damaged in the January 7 fire, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Bangladesh is home to over 1.1 million Rohingyas, most of whom fled Myanmar after a brutal military crackdown in 2017 described by the UN as ethnic cleansing and possible genocide.
