An estimated 12,000 Rohingya have been left without shelter after a fire tore through part of a cramped refugee camp in southernThe fire broke out at Camp 11 of Cox’s Bazar refugee camp, which is home to more than 1 millionrefugees, including 700,000 who fled their home country, Myanmar, after a brutal military crackdown in 2017.
The family spent Monday morning cleaning the burned debris that was once their shelter, and fixing a temporary roof. “We are still in fear, honestly, that this might set fire again. There is no safety or security here,” he said.Photograph: Tanbir Miraz/AFP/Getty Images Mijanur Rahman, Bangladesh’s refugee commissioner, told Agence France-Presse that about 2,000 shelters have been destroyed, leaving an estimated 12,000 people without shelter.