Blaze at Bangladesh refugee camp leaves thousands of Rohingya homeless

ALJAZEERA
7 Jan 2024 

Hundreds of shelters at the refugee camp in southeastern Bangladesh were gutted with arson suspected. 

Rohingya refugees look through the debris of their houses charred by a devastating fire at the camp in Kutupalong, Bangladesh in the early hours of the day [AFP]

 

Thousands of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh have been left without shelter after a fire ripped through a refugee camp, burning hundreds of homes, officials say.

Delhi: 56 shanties gutted in blaze at Rohingya refugee camp, 300 residents homeless

The Indian Express

Jignasa Sinha | New Delhi 
Updated: June 14, 2021 

In 2018, many of them lost their homes in a fire at a nearby camp in Madanpur Khadar. The families then moved to the new camp in the same area, which was destroyed on Saturday.

At the refugee camp in Kalindi Kunj, Sunday. (Express Photo by Abhinav Saha)

A massive fire broke out at a Rohingya refugee camp in Southeast Delhi’s Kalindi Kunj on Saturday night, destroying 56 shanties and leaving more than 300 people homeless. The fire broke out at 11.55 pm inside a house before it engulfed the entire camp.