Dear John, As you may have seen in the news, yesterday a devastating fire raged through several Rohingya refugee camps in the Kutalapalong Balukhali area of Bangladesh. At least 15 people have been killed, and hundreds remain missing.
“It is massive, it is devastating,” said our UNHCR Representative in Bangladesh, Johannes van der Klaauw. “We still have 400 people unaccounted for, maybe somewhere in the rubble,” he said. We also have reports of 560 people injured and 45,000 people displaced.
I have no doubt that you have followed the story of the Rohingya refugees over the years, and share our feeling of terrible sadness that people who have been through so much are today facing yet another tragedy.
UNHCR, along with our partners, has rushed to respond. We are providing protection and temporary shelter, safety and security to refugees left homeless and issuing documentation for those who lost everything in the devastating blaze. We are also working to reunite children who were separated from their families during the fire. But we cannot do this alone.
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