US EditionFire at Cox’s Bazar refugee camp in Bangladesh destroyed homes and displaced thousands of Rohingya
The fire destroyed 335 shelters and damaged camp infrastructure, highlighting urgent needs amid a $466.6 million funding gap for safer housing, aid groups said.
- On Tuesday, a massive blaze in Camp 16, Cox's Bazar refugee complex, Bangladesh destroyed 335 shelters and displaced more than 2,000 Rohingya refugees.
- Plans to shift people into semi-permanent housing were paused when international aid cuts announced in January 2025 shelved 50,000 semi-permanent shelters, leaving most in vulnerable bamboo and tarpaulin shelters.
- The blaze damaged water and sanitation points, 11 learning centers and camp infrastructure and pathways; firefighters took about three hours to bring the fire under control, and there were no fatalities but many lost possessions and identity documents.
- Relief groups urged more funding on Thursday as the IOM, Norwegian Refugee Council and others launched emergency aid amid a $466.6 million funding gap in 2025.
- Long-Term data show 2,425 fires affected more than 100,000 people and damaged more than 20,000 shelters, while more than 700,000 Rohingya fled Myanmar in 2017 amid ongoing fighting in Rakhine state.
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In Bangladesh, more than 400 shelters have been badly damaged during a major fire in a Rohingya refugee camp.
In Bangladesh there is the largest refugee camp in the world, Rohingya from Myanmar live there in the narrowest space. In a fire there was now devastating damage.
More than 400 shelters were badly damaged. In the southeast of Bangladesh, more than a million refugees live in Rohingya.
A report by the humanitarian organization Fortify Rights denounces the conditions of life on the island, where the government of Bangladesh has transferred tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees fleeing Myanmar. Born to lighten the pressure on Cox's Bazar camps after the exodus of 2017, the island has in fact become an isolated detention center, free of movement and job opportunities.
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Fire at Cox's Bazar refugee camp in Bangladesh destroyed homes and displaced thousands of Rohingya
A massive fire this week has destroyed hundreds of makeshift homes in a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, displacing more than 2,000 people.
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