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Thousands of Rohingya could be left homeless by a huge fire in the Cox's Bazaar countryside

MADRID, 5 Mar.

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Thousands of Rohingya could be left homeless by a huge fire in the Cox's Bazaar countryside

MADRID, 5 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Thousands of Rohingya refugees could end up in the open as a result of the huge fire declared this morning in sector 11 of the large Cox's Bazaar camp, home to the vast majority of the approximately one million people who fled the pursuit of the Burmese army towards Bangladesh. .

The flames, already under control, have consumed sectors 12 and 13, adjacent to Block B where the fire started, currently under investigation.

At least a thousand homes have been destroyed, according to the first estimates of the Emergency Service and Civil Defense collected by the BDNews24 portal.

Rohingya refugee volunteers trained in extinction have participated in extinguishing the fire, adds the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

16 Mobile Fire Extinguishing Units financed by the UN agency have also participated in the tasks, which has also confirmed "multiple buildings and facilities destroyed" in a message through its Twitter account.

The Rohingyas are an ethnic minority of the Muslim faith that is concentrated in the Burmese state of Rakhine (or Arakan, as the Rohingyas call it). Burma views them as descendants of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh and does not recognize them as citizens, thereby depriving them of basic rights.