DHAKA: Eight Rohingya refugees have been injured on Saturday in a fire that broke out attributable to a gasoline leak at a camp on the distant Bhasan Char island on Saturday, police mentioned.
Eight refugees with partial burns as a result of blaze, which erupted in a home inside a cluster, have been despatched to a authorities hospital in Noakhali district, Bhasan Char police chief Kawsar Alam Bhuiyan mentioned.
He mentioned 5 kids have been among the many injured.
Bangladesh has relocated round 32,000 folks from border camps within the southeastern district of Cox’s Bazar to Bhasan Char Island since late 2020.
The transfer has confronted opposition, particularly from assist teams anxious a few catastrophe in a rustic that commonly faces extreme climate, particularly alongside its coast.
The federal government has dismissed security considerations over the island, citing the constructing of flood defences in addition to housing for 100,000 folks, hospitals and cyclone centres.
Practically one million members of the Muslim minority from Myanmar reside in crammed, bamboo-and-plastic camps in Cox’s Bazar, most of them having fled a navy crackdown in 2017.
Fires typically escape within the crowded camps with their makeshift buildings. An enormous blaze in March 2021 killed no less than 15 refugees and destroyed greater than 10,000 properties.
Final yr about 12,000 have been left homeless after practically 2,800 shelters and greater than 90 services together with hospitals and studying centres have been destroyed in a fireplace. A panel that investigated the blaze referred to as it a “deliberate act of sabotage”.
Eight refugees with partial burns as a result of blaze, which erupted in a home inside a cluster, have been despatched to a authorities hospital in Noakhali district, Bhasan Char police chief Kawsar Alam Bhuiyan mentioned.
He mentioned 5 kids have been among the many injured.
Bangladesh has relocated round 32,000 folks from border camps within the southeastern district of Cox’s Bazar to Bhasan Char Island since late 2020.
The transfer has confronted opposition, particularly from assist teams anxious a few catastrophe in a rustic that commonly faces extreme climate, particularly alongside its coast.
The federal government has dismissed security considerations over the island, citing the constructing of flood defences in addition to housing for 100,000 folks, hospitals and cyclone centres.
Practically one million members of the Muslim minority from Myanmar reside in crammed, bamboo-and-plastic camps in Cox’s Bazar, most of them having fled a navy crackdown in 2017.
Fires typically escape within the crowded camps with their makeshift buildings. An enormous blaze in March 2021 killed no less than 15 refugees and destroyed greater than 10,000 properties.
Final yr about 12,000 have been left homeless after practically 2,800 shelters and greater than 90 services together with hospitals and studying centres have been destroyed in a fireplace. A panel that investigated the blaze referred to as it a “deliberate act of sabotage”.
