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  • Ah Huge fire swept through the Rohingya refugee camps in southern Bangladesh in the early hours of Thursday, destroying homes belonging to thousands of people.

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  • Refugee agency UNHCR said more than 550 shelters, home to around 3.5 1000 people rather totally or partially destroyed in the blaze, as well as 150 shops and a facility belonging to a non profit organization.

  • UNHCR said it was providing shelter materials, winter clothes, hot meals and medical care for the refugees displaced of the camp in Cox's bazaar.

  • No casualties were reported on.

  • Officials said there had been no decision on whether shelters would be rebuilt or refugees moved elsewhere.

  • More than a million Rohingya live in the mainland camps in southern Bangladesh, the vast majority having fled Myanmar in 2017 in a military led crackdown, the U.

  • N said was executed with genocidal intent charges.

Ah Huge fire swept through the Rohingya refugee camps in southern Bangladesh in the early hours of Thursday, destroying homes belonging to thousands of people.

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