About 300 Rohingya Muslim refugees were still unaccounted for last week after a huge fire swept through the world’s biggest refugee settlement in Bangladesh, the U.N. refugee agency said on Tuesday.
“Many families are still being reunited,” Andreij Mahecic, a spokesman for the U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, told journalists, adding that 11 deaths had been officially declared.
The fire spread through the cramped camp in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district last Monday. 45,000 people were driven out from their bamboo and plastic homes.
This week a devastating fire in Cox Bazar displaced nearly 50,000 Rohingya refugees.
— Amnesty International (@amnesty) March 27, 2021
Again.
Let this not be their fate forever.#RightsCantWait pic.twitter.com/XoQDcQaH0W