A Rohingya refugee camp in southeastern Bangladesh destroyed hundreds of homes, according to officials and witnesses, though there were no immediate reports of casualties.
The blaze hit Camp 16 in Cox's Bazar, a border district where more than a million Rohingya refugees live, with most of them fled a military-led crackdown in Myanmar in 2017.
Mohammed Shamsud Douza, a Bangladeshi government official who is in charge of refugees, said emergency workers had brought the fire under control. He said that the cause of the fire had not been established.
Everything is gone. Many are without homes, said Abu Taher, a Rohingya refugee.
Another blaze tore through a COVID 19 treatment centre for refugees in another refugee camp in the district last Sunday caused no casualties.
A devastating fire last March swept through the world's biggest refugee settlement in Cox's Bazar, killing at least 15 refugees and burning down more than 10,000 shanties.