About 1,200 homes destroyed by blaze in area that is home to nearly a million people who fled military crackdown in Myanmar

Thousands of people have been left homeless after a fire gutted parts of a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh, police say.

About 850,000 of the persecuted Muslim minority – many of whom escaped a 2017 military crackdown in Myanmar that UN investigators concluded was executed with “genocidal intent” – live in a network of camps in Bangladesh’s border district of Cox’s Bazar.

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Source: The Guardian