Rohingya camp fire leaves refugees homeless

Raging inferno: Thick, black smoke rising as the fire burns out of control while some refugees (BELOW) try to put out the fire with buckets of water at the Rohingya refugee camp in Balukhali in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. — Reuters/AP

A MASSIVE fire at a crammed camp for Rohingya in southern Bangladesh left thousands of the refugees homeless, a fire official and the United Nations said.

No casualties were reported at Balukhali camp in Cox’s Bazar district, said Emdadul Haque, a fire service official.