'Can’t take this pain': Rohingya mother searches for son after refugee camp blaze


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  • Saturday, 27 Mar 2021

Noor Banu, 32, talks to a relative over the phone as she tries to trace her eleven-year-old son Mohammed Karim, who went missing after a fire broke out earlier this week and destroyed thousands of shelters at the Balukhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 25, 2021. "I can't take this pain any more," Banu said. "I believe Karim is dead, and I may not even be able to identify his body." REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

BALUKHALI REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh (Reuters) - After losing her husband, two young sons and her home, Noor Banu thought she had seen the worst of life.

She made the perilous journey from her village in Myanmar’s Rakhine State to the refugee camps in Bangladesh in 2017, with nothing except her four surviving boys.

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