March 2021 Rohingya refugee-camp fire
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title:
March 2021 Rohingya refugee-camp fire
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On 22 March 2021, a fire that had started during the late afternoon in the Balukhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, destroyed a large portion of the camp, killed over a dozen people, and left nearly a thousand injured or missing. Thought to have begun when gas cylinders used for cooking exploded, 100 firemen fought the blaze, which burned for around eight hours until midnight. The fire displaced roughly 50,000 Rohingya refugees of the genocide in Myanmar and destroyed many buildings, i
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Rohingya refugee camp fire in Bangladesh
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_2021_Rohingya_refugee-camp_fire
date created:
2021-03-23T17:45:36Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T22:15:59Z
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