'Arson' destroys four UNICEF schools in Myanmar-Rohingya camps

A structure burns during a fire at a Rohingya camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh in this January 18, 2021 picture obtained from social media. - Reuters

Cox's Bazar (Bangladesh), Jan 19 (AFP): Four UNICEF schools for Rohingya children in refugee camps in Bangladesh have been destroyed in a fire, officials said Tuesday, with the UN children's agency calling it arson.

It was unclear who might attack the schools, which were empty at the time, but the security situation in the camps housing around a million people has worsened in recent months.