Rohingya refugees attempt to salvage their belongings after a significant hearth of their Balukhali camp at Ukhiya in Cox’s Bazar district, Bangladesh, on March 5, 2023.

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Rohingya refugees attempt to salvage their belongings after a significant hearth of their Balukhali camp at Ukhiya in Cox’s Bazar district, Bangladesh, on March 5, 2023.

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COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh — A large hearth raced by a crammed refugee camp for Rohingya Muslims in southern Bangladesh on Sunday, leaving hundreds homeless, a fireplace official and the United Nations stated.

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

Rohingya refugee boys salvage a fuel cylinder after a significant hearth within the Balukhali camp in Bangladesh.

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Rohingya refugee boys salvage a fuel cylinder after a significant hearth within the Balukhali camp in Bangladesh.

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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 help. It offered no additional particulars.

More than 1 million Rohingya refugees have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar over a number of a long time, together with about 740,000 who crossed the border beginning in August 2017, when the Myanmar army launched a brutal crackdown.

Rohingya refugees attempt to salvage their belongings after a significant hearth within the closely cramped Balukhali camp.

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Rohingya refugees attempt to salvage their belongings after a significant hearth within the closely cramped Balukhali camp.

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Conditions in Myanmar have worsened since a army takeover in 2021, and makes an attempt to ship again the refugees have failed.

Last yr, the United States stated the oppression of Rohingya in Myanmar quantities to genocide after U.S. authorities confirmed accounts of mass atrocities in opposition to civilians by the army in a scientific marketing campaign in opposition to the ethnic minority. Muslim Rohingya face widespread discrimination in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, the place most are denied citizenship and lots of different rights.