Blaze engulfs over 1,000 tents in Bangladeshi refugee camp

Several thousand Rohingya were left homeless in bone-chilling winter after a massive fire burned down and damaged tents in the southeastern city of Cox’s Bazar early Sunday, home to about 1.2 million refugees.

At least 1,040 refugee tents and shelters were completely been burned down, Atish Chakma, the Cox’s Bazar fire service deputy assistant director confirmed.

Some local authorities blamed the incident on sabotage, accusing some Myanmar insurgent groups of trying to establish supremacy in the camps.

It should be noted that the Rohingya in camps are refugees from ethnic persecution in neighboring Myanmar.