Residents assist local firefighters during a fire that gutted Rohingya Muslim shelters in Bawdupa camp near Sittwe, the capital of Myanmar's Rakhine state, on May 3, 2016. - AFP
Yangon (AFP) - A major fire on Tuesday damaged or destroyed the homes of nearly 450 Rohingya Muslim families living in a camp for people displaced by 2012 communal fighting in western Myanmar.
The charred remains of wooden shelters and twisted metal roofs were visible through a thick haze of smoke after the fire broke out in the early morning, a stark reminder of dire living conditions for over 100,000 Rohingya confined to bleak camps in Rakhine state.
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