“What we have experienced in this fire is something we have never seen in these camps before,” said John van der Klav, a UN refugee agency in Bangladesh, addressing journalists in Geneva in a video link from Dhaka.
“We have so far confirmed that 15 people have died, 560 have been injured and 400 have disappeared, and at least 10,000 shelter buildings have been destroyed. That means at least 45,000 are being relocated, for whom we are now seeking temporary refuge,” he said. added.
The Rohingya crisis in the region began in the summer of 2017, when an army in Rakhine State, a neighboring country in Bangladesh, Myanmar, launched a campaign against Rohingya rebels in response to an attack by a rebel group.
The campaign prompted some 740,000 Rohingya to flee Myanmar to Bangladesh, and security forces were accused of mass rape and murder, as well as the burning of thousands of homes.
Myanmar, where the majority of the population is Buddhist, considers Muslim Rohingya to be Bengalis from Bangladesh, although Rohingya families have lived in Myanmar for several generations.
