March 5 (UPI) — Thousands of Rohingya refugees had been left with out shelter on Sunday after a fireplace tore via their refugee camp in southeastern Bangladesh, officers stated.

The hearth erupted in Camp 11 in Cox’s Bazar, a border district that the United Nations Refugee Agency says is house to about 1 million Rohingyas, the vast majority of whom arrived from their native Myanmar in 2017.

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The U.N. Refugee Agency reported that the hearth both broken or destroyed some 2,000 shelters, leaving 12,000 Rohingyas refugees with a spot to dwell.

Ninety services, together with hospitals and studying facilities, had been additionally destroyed, it stated.

The U.N.’s International Organization for Migration said that whereas the hearth has been doused, the extent of the injury has but to be decided.

The variety of casualties as of early Monday had been additionally unknown.

“Despite the destruction of their own shelters and having lost everything, Rohingya refugee Community Health Workers continued providing support to the community,” UNHCR in Bangladesh tweeted Monday.

“[Ninety] of them worked through the night to provide first aid, psychosocial support & refer people to health facilities.”

More than 700,000 Rohingya refugees first arrived in Bangladesh after fleeing persecution and state violence in Myanmar in 2017 when the army started a violent crackdown on the ethnic minority.

The U.N. Refugee Agency stated those that dwell in Cox’s Bazar dwell in non permanent shelters in a extremely congested camp setting the place they rely solely on humanitarian help for cover, meals, water, shelter and healthcare.