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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 07, 2023
Aid workers struggle to reunite Rohingya children separated by deadly fire

Rohingya Crisis

Reuters
24 March, 2021, 01:55 pm
Last modified: 24 March, 2021, 03:01 pm

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Aid workers struggle to reunite Rohingya children separated by deadly fire

The blaze tore through the cramped camp in southeast Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district on 22 March, killing 15 people with hundreds missing

Reuters
24 March, 2021, 01:55 pm
Last modified: 24 March, 2021, 03:01 pm
A fire is seen at a Balukhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh March 22, 2021 in this still image obtained from a social media video. Ro Yassin Abdumonab/via REUTERS
A fire is seen at a Balukhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh March 22, 2021 in this still image obtained from a social media video. Ro Yassin Abdumonab/via REUTERS

Aid workers searched on Wednesday to reunite Rohingya Muslim families separated when a huge fire swept through the world's biggest refugee settlement in Bangladesh, forcing about 45,000 people from their bamboo and plastic homes.

The blaze tore through the cramped camp in southeast Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar district on Monday, killing 15 people with hundreds missing, the United Nations said. Bangladesh said at least 11 people were killed.

"Most people scattered to other camps to stay with friends or relatives," said Snigdha Chakraborty, country manager for the Catholic Relief Services aid group.

"We must ensure that any children who were separated from their families during the evacuation are reunited quickly."

She did not provide any estimate of how many children had been left on their own.

The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, also said children were looking for their parents, in another trauma for families that fled from their homes in western Myanmar when the military there launched an offensive against Muslim insurgents in 2017.

"This is a very difficult situation and our heart goes out to the thousands of refugees who have yet met another disaster," UNHCR official Ita Schuette said in a video message posted on Twitter from Cox's Bazar.

Some 1 million Rohingya refugees live in camps in Cox's Bazar with little hope of returning to their homes in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, where most have been refused citizenship and face persecution.

Some witnesses said that barbed wire fencing put up around the camp had trapped many people during the fire.

A combination image of satellite photos shows Balukhali camp, a camp for Rohingya refugees, before (L) and after a fire near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, November 12, 2020 and March 23, 2021. Planet Labs Inc./Handout via REUTERS
A combination image of satellite photos shows Balukhali camp, a camp for Rohingya refugees, before (L) and after a fire near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, November 12, 2020 and March 23, 2021. Planet Labs Inc./Handout via REUTERS

International humanitarian agencies have called for the removal of the wire but the deputy Bangladesh government official in charge of the refugees, Mohammad Shamsud Douza, said the fencing was not a major issue.

"It spread so quickly that some people who could not come out instantly died," he said. "It was not the barbed wire fencing that prevented them from escaping."

Citing overcrowding in the camps, Bangladesh has been trying to move 100,000 Rohingya to a remote Bay of Bengal island.

Aid groups say the flood-prone, low-lying Bhasan Char island, which only emerged from the see about 20 years ago, risks being overwhelmed by storms and refugees should not be housed there.

Despite that, and the reluctance of many Rohingya to move, Bangladesh has transferred more than 13,000 refugees to the island since December.

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