A fire broke out at the Rohingya refugee camp in Ukhia upazila of Cox’s Bazar Monday, gutting a training centre of international development organization BRAC and two houses.
The fire started at around 2 pm at camp-17 and two units of Ukhia Fire Service managed to control the flames after three hours, said Naimul Haque, commander of Armed Police Battalion-14 (APBn).
Fortunately no casualties were reported but the origin of the fire is yet to be identified, he said.
A series of fires have broken out at the camps in recent years.
Earlier on January 9, as many as 600 homes were gutted in a fire that broke out at Rohingya camp-16 at Palangkhali Shafuillakata in Ukhia.
On January 2, another massive fire broke out at a Covid-19 isolation centre located at extension-20 of Ukhia Rohingya camp. Fortunately no casualties were reported in the fire but 70 beds of the hospitals were charred causing damage of at least Tk 8 lakh.
Before that on March 22, last year, 11 people were killed and more than two lakh Rohingya refugees were affected as a massive fire broke out at three Rohingya camps in Ukhia, burning around 10,000 houses.
Source: United News of Bangladesh