Bangladesh panel says fire at Rohingya camps 'planned sabotage’

FILE PHOTO: A Rohingya refugee boy sits on a stack of burnt materials after a fire broke out and destroyed thousands of shelters at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 24, 2021. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain/File Photo

DHAKA (Reuters) - A fire that left thousands of Rohingya Muslims homeless in Bangladesh camps was a "planned act of sabotage", a panel investigating the blaze said on Sunday.

Nearly 2,800 shelters and more than 90 facilities including hospitals and learning centres were destroyed in the fire on March 5, leaving more than 12,000 people without shelter, officials said.