The blaze tore through the cramped camp in southeast Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar district on Monday, killing 15 people with hundreds missing, the United Nations said. Bangladesh said at least 11 people were killed.
"We must ensure that any children who were separated from their families during the evacuation are reunited quickly."A fire and smoke are seen at a Balukhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on Monday.The U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, also said children were looking for their parents, in another trauma for families that fled from their homes in western Myanmar when the military there launched an offensive against Muslim insurgents in 2017.
Some 1 million Rohingya refugees live in camps in Cox's Bazar with little hope of returning to their homes in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, where most have been refused citizenship and face persecution.Some witnesses said that barbed wire fencing put up around the camp had trapped many people during the fire.
"It spread so quickly that some people who could not come out instantly died," he said."It was not the barbed wire fencing that prevented them from escaping."Citing overcrowding in the camps, Bangladesh has been trying to move 100,000 Rohingya to a remote Bay of Bengal island.
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