vAs many as 1,000 houses in flames at Kutupalong Rohingya camp in Cox's Bazar on Saturday night — Focus Bangla A blaze has ripped through four blocks of a Rohingya refugee settlement in Cox's Bazar's Kutupalong on the eve of the national election, reports bdnews24.com.
The fire broke out at a house in block A of camp No. 5 at 11:45 pm on Saturday before spreading rapidly, according to Md Shamim, chief of Ukhiya Police Station
Fire Service personnel eventually tamed the flames early on Sunday morning.
More than a thousand houses were burnt down in the blaze. No casualties have been reported so far.
Police have yet to determine if the fire started accidentally or if foul play was involved, said Shamim.
Menwhile, the fire at a Buddhist temple at Ramu in Cox's Bazar is an arson attack, police say.
The Usaichen Buddhist Temple in the municipality caught fire around 2:00 am on Saturday.
A man called the Fire Service and Civil Defence 20 minutes before the fire started and gave them wrong information about a fake fire incident 15 kilometres away from the temple so that the firefighters would be late to reach the actual site, the law enforcers said.
CCTV footage of the temple showed a young man wearing a facemask scaling the temple's wall and set the fire inside after pouring kerosene, said Jamilul Haque, a spokesperson for Rapid Action Battalion-5.
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