Around 800 shelters were gutted in a fire that made nearly 7,000 Rohingya refugees homeless in Cox’s Bazar’s Ukhiya on Saturday night.
The UNHCR and its humanitarian partners are scrambling to respond to the latest devastating fire that ravaged through Camp 5, one of the 33 camps in Cox’s Bazar that make the largest refugee camp in the world.
Nearly 800 shelters are feared to have been destroyed in the first large fire of 2024, which started around 1am Sunday and was brought under control by 4am.
Additionally, 93 shelters were partially damaged, and around 120 facilities, including learning centres, mosques, healthcare centres, latrines and bathing facilities, water points, and solar street lights have also been destroyed or damaged by the inferno.
No casualties have been reported, so far.