DHAKA: A fire that left thousands of Rohingya Muslims homeless in Bangladesh camps was a 'planned act of sabotage', a panel investigating the blaze said on Sunday (Mar 12). Nearly 2,800 shelters and more than 90 facilities including hospitals and learning centres
DHAKA: A fire that left thousands of Rohingya Muslims homeless in Bangladesh camps was a"planned act of sabotage", a panel investigating the blaze said on Sunday .were destroyed in the fire on Mar 5More than 1 million Rohingya refugees live in tens of thousands of huts made of bamboo and thin plastic sheeting in camps in the border district of Cox's Bazar, most having fled a military-led crackdown in Myanmar in 2017.
He said the blaze broke out in several places at the same time, proving it was a planned act, adding it was a deliberate attempt to establish supremacy inside the camps by militant groups. He didn't name the groups. The panel also recommended the formation of a separate fire service unit for the Rohingya camps. Each block of Rohingya camps needs to be widened to accommodate fire service vehicles and the construction of water cisterns, and the camps should use less flammable materials in shelters, among other recommendations.
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