An enormous fireplace raced by way of a crammed refugee camp for Rohingya in southern Bangladesh on Sunday, leaving 1000’s homeless, a hearth official and the United Nations stated.

No casualties have been reported instantly on the Balukhali camp in Cox’s Bazar district, stated Emdadul Haque, a hearth service official.

The UNHCR in Bangladesh stated in a tweet that Rohingya refugee volunteers have been responding to the fireplace with the company and its companions offering assist. It supplied no additional particulars.

A couple of million Rohingya refugees have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar over a number of many years, together with about 740,000 who crossed the border beginning in August 2017, when the Myanmar navy launched a brutal crackdown.

Circumstances in Myanmar have worsened since a navy takeover in 2021, and makes an attempt to ship them again have failed.