Aid workers struggle to reunite Rohingya families after fire kills 15 people
Some say barbed wire around the refugee camp that holds 45,000 people trapped them in the blaze
24 March 2021 - 12:06
Cox’s Bazar — Aid workers searched on Wednesday to reunite Rohingya Muslim families separated when a huge fire swept through the world’s biggest refugee settlement in Bangladesh, forcing about 45,000 people from their bamboo and plastic homes.
The blaze, the latest and biggest over the past year in the crowded camps in southeast Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district, killed 15 people on Monday with hundreds missing, the UN said...
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