Fire destroys homes Cox's Bazar refugee camp in Bangladesh

Fire and smoke bellows from burning buildings at Cox's Bazar refugee camp, Bangladesh March 5, 2023 in this still image obtained from a social media video. Courtesy of Bangladesh Red Crescent Society/via REUTERS

DHAKA (Reuters) -A big fire at a camp for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh destroyed homes and sent thick black clouds of smoke through the area on Sunday before being brought under control.

The blaze erupted at Camp 11 in Cox's Bazar, a southeastern border district where more than a million Rohingya refugees live. Most of the refugees fled a military-led crackdown in Myanmar in 2017, and the fire left some of them homeless again.