ロヒンギャ難民キャンプで火災　１万２０００人が住まい失う　バングラデシュ

【クトゥパロン（バングラデシュ）ＡＦＰ＝時事】バングラデシュ南東部にあるミャンマーのイスラム系少数民族ロヒンギャの難民キャンプで５日、火災が発生し、約１万２０００人が住まいを失った。（写真は、火災発生後のロヒンギャの難民キャンプの様子）
　バングラデシュの難民問題担当者によると、火災は世界最大規模の難民キャンプ「クトゥパロン」で午後２時４５分ごろに発生。竹や防水シートなどで造られた約２０００戸の小屋があっという間に炎上した。
　少なくとも３５のモスク（イスラム礼拝所）と２１の学習施設も燃えたが、現時点では死傷者の報告はないという。
　火は３時間弱で消し止められた。出火原因は不明で、当局は調査を命じている。
　クトゥパロンでは１００万人近いロヒンギャ難民が劣悪な環境で暮らしており、火災も頻発している。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2023/03/06-15:27）

A fire destroyed 2,000 shelters at a Rohingya refugee camp in southeastern Bangladesh on Sunday, leaving around 12,000 people homeless, an official said.
The fire broke out around 2:45 pm (0845 GMT) at camp number 11 in Kutupalong, one of the world's largest refugee settlements, and rapidly engulfed the bamboo-and-tarpaulin shelters, Mijanur Rahman, Bangladesh's refugee commissioner, told AFP.
Some 2,000 shelters have been burnt, leaving about 12,000 forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals shelterless, he said.
At least 35 mosques and 21 learning centres for the refugees were also destroyed, though there were no reports of any injuries or deaths, he added.
My shelter was gutted. (My shop) was also burnt, said Mamun Johar, a 30-year-old Rohingya man.
The fire took everything from me, everything.
The blaze was brought under control in less than three hours.
It was not clear how the fire started. The authorities have ordered an investigation.
Fires are common in the camps where nearly one million Rohingya refugees live in squalid conditions.
Most of them fled a military crackdown in Myanmar's Rakhine state in 2017 and took refuge in Bangladesh.
A Bangladesh defence ministry report last month said that between January 2021 and December 2022, there were 222 fire incidents in the Rohingya camps -- including 60 cases of arson.
In March 2021, in what was the worst blaze in the Rohingya camps, at least 15 people were killed and some 50,000 were displaced after a fire engulfed an entire block in a settlement.