Bangladesh probes deadly fire at Rohingya refugee camp

Officials investigate cause of massive fire – the worst since 2017 – that killed seven and displaced tens of thousands.

Bangladeshi officials have begun investigating the cause of a massive fire that killed at least seven and displaced tens of thousands at a Rohingya refugee camp as officials sifted through the debris looking for more victims. The fire ripped through the Balukhali camp near the southeastern town of Cox’s Bazar late on Monday, burning through thousands of huts as people scrambled to save their meagre possessions. The vast majority of the people in the camps fled Myanmar in 2017 amid a military-led crackdown on the Rohingya that UN investigators said was executed with “genocidal intent”, a charge Myanmar denies.