Within two hours the flames destroyed 1,200 shelters in one of the world’s biggest settlements A massive fire has devastated a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh, leaving thousands of people homeless, police have said. “About 1,200 houses were burnt in the fire,” a spokesman for the Armed Police Battalion, Kamran Hossain, told AFP on Sunday. […]
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WATCH: ‘Utter destruction’ as super typhoon ravages Philippines
More than 300,000 people have been displaced and at least 31 were killed as Typhoon Rai tore through the Philippines. It was the archipelago’s 15th and strongest major storm this year. The tropical storm, named Rai internationally but named Odette locally, gathered over the Philippines this week, later than most typhoons which typically develop between […]
Blaze ravages Greek migrant camp & forces evacuations on eve of relocation to new ‘closed-style’ facility
Hundreds of people have been evacuated from a soon-to-be-closed Vathy migrant camp on the Greek island of Samos, after massive fire engulfed the facility just ahead of the planned relocation of its remaining residents. Six fire engines were sent to the scene to contain the blaze, which according to authorities had started in a deserted […]