hello, and welcome to bbc news. a huge fire has ripped through one of the rohingya refugee camps in bangladesh. the blaze took hold in cox s bazar in the south east of the country. the fire has been brought under control and volunteers are estimating the damage. the charity action aid said their initial assessment was that more than 2,000 shelters had been gutted, affecting around 12,000 people. no casualties have been reported so far. hundreds of thousands of rohingya refugees, who escaped violence in neighbouring myanmar, have been living in cramped camps near the border in bangladesh. earlier, rusikesh harichandan from the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies had this assessment of the damage. the fire broke out today at around 3pm in the camp and it took almost two hours to be handled by the fire service agencies. the fire has brought massive damage, around 12,000 people affected. most of the services also have been damaged. camp ten, 11, and n
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