Massive fire sweeps through Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh

Videos posted on social media showed smoke billowing from Balukhali Camp 1 in Cox’s Bazaar.

A massive fire has swept through a Rohingya refugee camp in southern Bangladesh, officials and witnesses said, gutting hundreds of shanties. Videos posted on social media on Monday showed clouds of smoke billowing from Balukhali Camp 1 in Cox’s Bazar. “We have got the report of fire and we responded to the incident. We are trying to control the blaze,” Mohammad Shamsud Douza, additional commissioner of the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commission, told Anadolu Agency.