a huge fire has ripped through one of the rohingya refugee camps in cox s bazar in south east bangladesh. the charity action aid said their initial assessment was that more than 2000 shelters had been gutted, leaving around 12,000 people homeless. hundreds of thousands of rohingya refugees, who escaped violence in neighbouring myanmar, have been living in crammed camps near the border in bangladesh. earlier i spoke to farah kabir, the country director of action aid bangladesh, about what happened. it s a very densely populated camp. we host more than a million people in the rohingya refugee camps. and so far, over 12,000 people have been affected. a lot of people have been temporarily evacuated. they came to the centres action aid has some community centres in camp 11 and they are taking refuge there. and the water points, as already mentioned by your colleague, and two of the health centres, primary health centres, were affected. and tomorrow morning we will have a clear
more than a hundred un member states agree on a treaty to protect the world s oceans. the ship has reached the shore. cheering and applause a huge fire has ripped through one of the rohingya refugee camps in cox s bazar in south east bangladesh. the charity action aid said their initial assessment was that more than 2000 shelters had been gutted, leaving around 12,000 people homeless. hundreds of thousands of rohingya refugees, who escaped violence in neighbouring myanmar, have been living in crammed camps near the border in bangladesh. earlier i spoke to our south asia correspondent anbarasan ethirajan who started off my telling me where the fire took place and gave me an update on what we know so far. it is a very sprawling camp where tens of thousands of people live in cramped conditions. and these huts are made up of bamboo and sometimes by polythene sheets or even tin roofs and they are packed. there are tens of thousands of people living there. in the evenings, someho
a huge fire has ripped through one of the rohingya refugee camps in cox s bazar in south east bangladesh. the charity action aid said their initial assessment was that more than 2000 shelters had been gutted, leaving around 12,000 people homeless. hundreds of thousands of rohingya refugees, who escaped violence in neighbouring myanmar, have been living in crammed camps near the border in bangladesh. earlier i spoke to our south asia correspondent anbarasan ethirajan who started off my telling me where the fire took place and gave me an update on what we know so far.. it is a very sprawling camp where tens of thousands of people live in cramped conditions. and these huts are made up of bamboo and sometimes by polythene sheets or even tin roofs and they are packed. there are tens of thousands of people living there. in the evenings, somehow the fire starts by accident. but officials say they managed to bring it under control. but thousands of people are now affected. they are
on what we know so far. it is a very sprawling camp where tens of thousands of people live in cramped conditions. and these huts are made up of bamboo and sometimes by polythene sheets or even tin roofs and they are packed. there are tens of thousands of people living there. in the evenings, somehow the fire starts by accident. but officials say they managed to bring it under control. but thousands of people are now affected. they are now homeless, with the women and children as the aid worker was saying. it is a very terrible condition because they will be staying outside in the cold. but the aid agencies say they are providing all of the help. it is also a reminder of all the situation of rohingya refugees where nearly a million of them escaped violence from neighbouring myanmar. these camps are situated very close to the border. many people feel, the rohingya community feel, they have been forgotten by the world communuity. earlier i spoke to safwan chowdhury from the ba
around 12,000 people have been left homeless after a huge fire ripped through one of the rohingya refugee camps in south east bangladesh. officials say the fire gutted around 2000 shelters in cox s bazar district. hundreds of thousands of rohingya refugees, who escaped violence in neighbouring myanmar, have been living in crammed camps near the border in bangladesh. anbarasan ethirajan reports. the bamboo shelters of rohingya refugees in cox s bazar district are no match for the raging blaze. residents ran from the huts with their meagre belongings as the fire spread quickly. it s yet another blow for the rohingya refugees who had to flee their homes from neighbouring myanmar. thousands have become homeless in a matter of few hours. it will be a challenge for the authorities to rehome those affected. nearly a million rohingya refugees live in squalid conditions and camps scattered in cox s bazar district. the latest incident will put pressure on the ongoing aid efforts. the r