Hundreds homeless after fire guts Rohingya refugee camp
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By Sameer Yasir
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New Delhi: A large fire tore through a crowded Rohingya camp in the Cox s Bazar area of Bangladesh on Thursday, destroying hundreds of ramshackle shelters and forcing thousands of displaced Muslim refugees to flee in the northern winter chill.
The blaze claimed no lives but left hundreds of people without homes, according to aid workers and officials. It struck at a time when officials in Bangladesh look for long-term solutions for the hundreds of thousands of refugees who have crossed its border from Myanmar in recent years.