Fire in market at Rohingya camp in Bangladesh kills 3

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Md. Kamruzzaman 

DHAKA, Bangladesh

02.04.2021

At least 7 shops have been gutted, says fire service official

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At least three Rohingya refugees were killed and seven shops were gutted when a fire broke out early Friday in a market at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh’s southern district of Cox’s Bazar, in the second such incident in the past 10 days, according to official sources.

“We have recovered three bodies from inside the gutted shops,” Md Abdullah, deputy assistant director of Cox's Bazar Fire Service and Civil Defense, told Anadolu Agency.

Humanitarian crisis management programme: Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh - Situation Report #7: Fire incident across Rohingya camps (28 March 2021)

Situation Report
Source :BRAC
29 Mar 2021

 

Humanitarian crisis management programme: Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh - Situation Report #6: Fire incident across Rohingya camps (27 March 2021)

Situation Report
Source: BRAC
28 Mar 2021

UNICEF Bangladesh Humanitarian Situation Report No. 1 (Rohingya Camp Fire): 23 March 2021

 

Rohingya youth killed at Palongkhali Rohingya camp

Dhaka Tribune

Abdul Aziz, Cox's Bazar

January 26th, 2021

File photo of a Rohingya camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh Syed Zakir Hossain/Dhaka Tribune

The 25 years old was killed amid a clash between two opposing Rohingya groups in the camp

A Rohingya youth was killed in a shootout between two groups at the Palongkhali Rohingya camp in Cox's Bazar.

The deceased was identified as Mohammad Jabed, 25, a resident of block D/4 of Tanjimarakhola Rohingya refugee camp in Palongkhali union of Ukhiya upazila.

The incident took place in block D/8 of Tanjimarakhola Rohingya refugee camp in Palongkhali union of the upazila around 3am on Monday.

'Arson' destroys four UNICEF schools in Rohingya camps

FRANCH 24

Cox's Bazar (Bangladesh) (AFP)
19/01/2021

 

UNICEF runs some 2,500 learning centres in the 34 refugee camps in Bangladesh's southeastern border district of Cox's Bazar - AFP

 

Four UNICEF schools for Rohingya children in refugee camps in Bangladesh have been destroyed in a fire, officials said Tuesday, with the UN children's agency calling it arson.

It was unclear who might attack the schools, which were empty at the time, but the security situation in the camps housing around a million people has worsened in recent months.

WFP reopens fresh food corners at Rohingya camps

The Daily Star 

Unb, Dhaka
October 29, 2020

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has reopened its fresh food corners at Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar, allowing trade and business activities to resume after months of closure due to Covid-19 prevention measures.

By May 2021, WFP hopes to bring the farmers' market to 30 percent of the population at the camps, with monthly transactions touching $500,000.

Bangladesh reports coronavirus cases in Rohingya camp

Prothum Alo------ 

Reuters Dhaka
14 May 2020,

Rohingya refugees gather at a market inside a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on 7 March 2019Reuters file photo

The novel coronavirus has been detected in one of the camps in southern Bangladesh that are home to more than a million Rohingyas, officials said on Thursday, as humanitarian groups warned that the infection could devastate the crowded settlement.

An ethnic Rohingya refugee and another person have tested positive for COVID-19, a senior Bangladeshi official and a UN spokeswoman said. It was the first confirmed case in the camps, which are more densely populated than most crowded cities on earth.

100 makeshift houses gutted at Ukhia Rohingya camp fire

The Daily Star

Star Online Report
May 12, 2020

At least 100 makeshift houses were gutted in a fire at Kutupalong Rohingya camp in Ukhia upazila of Cox's Bazar this morning.

The fire broke out at block-H of Rohingya camp no-1 located at Lombashiaghona around 8:55am, said Mohammad Imdadul Islam, an official of Ukhia Fire Service Station.

On information, four fire-fighting units from Ukhia , Rampu, Teknaf and Cox's Bazar rushed to the spot and brought the blaze under control after two hours of frantic efforts, said Imdadul.

Devastating fire at Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar

NEWAGE

Our Correspondent . Cox's Bazar

May 12,2020 

Smoke billow from debris after a fire burnt down shanties of Rohingyas at Kutupalang camp in Cox’s Bazar on Tuesday. – New Age photo

A sudden fire totally damaged at least 350 shanties and partially damaged 350 more shanties housing Rohingyas at Kutupalang refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar on Tuesday morning.

‘The fire broke out from a house adjacent to the camp and quickly it spread to the adjacent shanties,’ said Shamsuddoha, additional refugee, relief and repatriation commissioner.

‘Launch coronavirus awareness campaign in Rohingya camps, lift curbs on mobile internet’

The Daily Star

March 30, 2020
Star Online Report

NGOs, civil society groups and journos urge govt

A view of the Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar. Star/file  

Local and national NGOs, civil society groups and journalists have called upon the government to launch a wide-range of awareness campaigns on coronavirus in the Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar.

They also called for lifting the restrictions on using mobile phones and internet and resume 4G facilities at the camps in Ukhiya and Teknaf.

Speakers at a virtual press conference organised by the Cox's Bazar CSO NGO Forum (CCNF) today said this, adding that the Rohingyas are more vulnerable to Covid-19 infection because about 1.1 million refugees are living in a congested environment in Ukhiya and Teknaf.

Coronavirus panic grips Rohingya camps in Bangladesh

Aljazeera
2020.03.26

Experts say vulnerable populations such as the Rohingya will likely be disproportionately affected by COVID-19.

Rohingya refugees, without wearing any mask or any other safety gear, gather along a market area in Kutupalong refugee camp [Suzauddin Rubel/AFP] 

Experts and activists have warned that about one million Rohingya refugees living in the crowded and cramped camps in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar are vulnerable to coronavirus infections.

Coronavirus fear grips Rohingya camps in Bangladesh

AA
Md. Kamruzzaman
DHAKA, Bangladesh
13.03.2020

Displaced community's vulnerable conditions breeding ground for infections  

Years-long ordeal and the tireless struggle for survival have made Master Abdur Rahim adept to deal with potential disasters.

He, however, is worried about what lays in store for him and nearly a million other Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The virus, which has killed nearly 5,000 people in 118 countries and territories, reached Bangladesh last week.

Although only three COVID-19 cases have so far been confirmed in the Muslim-majority South Asian nation, refugees in the southern Cox's Bazar district are distressed.

What is being done to prevent coronavirus outbreak in Rohingya camps?

Dhaka Tribune 

Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan
March 13th, 2020

File photo of Rohingya refugees at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar Syed Zakir Hossain/Dhaka Tribune

Officials putting great emphasis on prevention, as spread of infection will be difficult to contain

Health officials in Cox’s Bazar Rohingya camps are putting precautionary plans into action to prevent a potential Covid-19 outbreak, as the world faces a pandemic.

Both the government and the international agencies are putting great emphasis on placing preventive measures in the refugee camps, since it will be very difficult to deal with a situation that may arise from any infection, officials told Dhaka Tribune.

Lost decades in Rohingya camps

The Daily Star
Maliha Khan
February 19, 2020

Rohingya refugees gather at a market inside a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, March 7, 2019. PHOTO: REUTERS

Long before August 2017, there were Rohingya refugees who lived in camps in Cox's Bazar, who had left Myanmar decades ago.

Arman, now in his mid-20s, was born and raised in these camps. His parents were among those who fled Myanmar in the early 1990s, and were recognised as refugees by the Bangladesh government and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). These "registered" Rohingya refugees, numbering around 35,000 continue to live in the camps, nearly 30 years on. Their children tend to be almost entirely socially integrated—speaking Bangla fluently (in addition to their native Rohingya). Bangladesh is the only home they have ever known.

Dhaka’s security-related regulations for Rohingya camps

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Srinjoy Chowdhury | 

National Affairs Editor 

Jan 10, 2020

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said there are 1.1 million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar in Bangladesh, mostly in the refugee camps. 

New Delhi: Keeping in mind security issues, Bangladesh has issued fresh instructions for NGOs and other international organisations working with the Rohingyas, mostly in the Cox's Bazaar area of the country.

Myanmar team visits Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar

Prothum Alo 

Prothom Alo English Desk
Update: 22:16, Dec 19, 2019

Rohingya refugee camp in Cox`s Bazar. File Photo

A nine-member Myanmar delegation visited Rohingya camp in Cox's Bazar on Wednesday and interacted with Rohingyas in an effort to convince them to return to their homes in Rakhine state, reports UNB. 

They will talk to Rohingyas at the camp on Thursday before they leave Cox's Bazar for Dhaka in the afternoon, an official told UNB.

Bangladesh to build barbed wire fences around Rohingya camps

The Telegraph  

Nicola Smith, Asia correspondent 

27 September 2019 

 

 

Rohingya refugees trapped in no-man's land between Bangladesh and Burma Credit: Ye Aung Thu/AFP

 

Bangladesh is planning to install barbed-wire fencing, guard towers and cameras around Rohingya refugee camps, raising fears of prison-like conditions in the already bleak settlements.

The move comes amid growing security concerns and rising impatience in Dhaka that no solution has been found to repatriate or rehouse some one million refugees who have fled from Burma’s Rakhine state to the Bangladeshi port of Cox’s Bazar, most during a murderous military crackdown in 2017.
"There are three large camps. We'll fence the three camps with barbed wires," Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan told reporters this week. "Watch towers and CCTV cameras" would also be set up to monitor activity in the Cox's Bazar district settlements, he added, according to AFP. 

Turkey requests land from Bangladesh for Rohingya camps

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Servet Günerigök
WASHINGTON
25.09.2019

'If you can do that, we are ready to build proper camps for these vulnerable people,' says Turkish FM

Turkey’s Foreign Minister on Tuesday asked Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to allocate land for building camps for Rohingya refugees.

Mevlut Cavusoglu was speaking at a meeting on Rohingya on the margins of the 74th session of the UN General Assembly in New York.

4 countries seek safety of Rohingyas, host communities in Cox’s Bazar

The Daily Star
UNB, Dhaka
September 26, 2019

 Rohingyas from Myanmar wait to be let through by Bangladeshi border guards after crossing the border at Palongkhali of Cox's Bazar on October 16, 2017. File Photo: Reuters

Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland today said a "safe and secure" situation in the Rohingya camps and surrounding areas in Cox's Bazar must be upheld so that Rohingyas and host communities can feel safe and protected.

Heads of Mission of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland, in a joint press statement, laid emphasis on joint efforts by the international community to ensure repatriation of Rohingyas in "voluntary, safe, dignified and sustainable" manner.