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March 23, 2021

Hundreds Missing, Tens of Thousands Displaced by Fire in Rohingya Refugee Camp
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In news from Bangladesh, a massive fire in a Rohingya refugee camp has
killed at least 15 people and displaced 50,000. Al Jazeera reports 400
people remain missing. The fire began in a camp in Cox's Bazar and then
spread to two others, destroying thousands of shelters. Nearly a million
Rohingya refugees live in southern Bangladesh after fleeing a military
crackdown in Burma in 2017. It was the third fire at the camps in recent
days. One survivor told Reuters, "When we were in Burma … they destroyed
everything. Now it has happened again."


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