Fire at Rohingya camp in Bangladesh leaves thousands homeless By: AFP on January 10, 2022COX’S BAZAR: Thousands of people were left homeless after a fire gutted parts of a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh, police said on Sunday. About 850,000 of the persecuted Muslim minority — many of whom escaped a 2017 military crackdown in Myanmar that UN investigators concluded was executed with “genocidal intent” — live in a […]
Bangladesh arrests ferry owner after blaze that killed 39 By: AFP on December 27, 2021Bangladesh police on Monday arrested the owner of an overcrowded ferry that caught fire and killed at least 39 people last week after investigators blamed the toll on a disregard for safety. The blaze broke out in the middle of the night on Friday when many of the ferry’s 700 passengers were sleeping near the […]