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The massive fire that swept through Camp 11 on March 5, 2023, affecting over 16,000 Rohingya refugees, severely damaged certain areas of the world’s largest refugee camps. Of these, 5,000 Rohingya refugees were temporarily displaced and moved to nearby camps.

The world’s largest refugee camp suffered significant damage in certain areas across Camp 11 after a massive fire spread through this camp on March 5, 2023. Three blocks were affected blocks (A, B, and D), with Block D having the most impacted households (1,278).

During an emergency and time of displacement, the psychosocial implications of displaced people are affected and the breakdown of the usual protective institutions such as the family, community, government, law enforcement structures, etc. increase the intensity of different protection issues.

The total number of Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar and and Bhasan char is around 961,729 individuals . A high majority of the Rohingya refugee population is concentrated in 33 extremely congested camps within Ukhiya and Teknaf Upazilas of Cox’s Bazar district, Bangladesh.

The massive fire that swept through Camp 11 on March 5, 2023, affecting over 16,000 Rohingya refugees, severely damaged certain areas of the world’s largest refugee camps. Of these, 5,000 Rohingya refugees were temporarily displaced and moved to nearby camps.

Rohingya refugees live in the world’s largest refugee settlement in Bangladesh’s south-eastern district of Cox’s Bazar. The Myanmar military attack on Rakhine state in August 2017 forced thousands of Rohingya Muslims to escape to Bangladesh.

After the Burmese military’s violent assault on Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine Province began in August 2017, when thousands of Rohingya people fled their homes with severe persecution resulting in the creation of the world’s largest refugee camps in Bangladesh.

On May 14 at around 15:00 hrs., Cyclone Mocha hit the coastal areas along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border.

A massive and devastating fire that broke out through Camp 11 on 5th March 2023, affected nearly 16,000 Rohingya refugees and causing severe damage to certain areas of the world’s largest refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar.

Over 16,000 Rohingya refugees were impacted by the massive fire that swept through Camp 11 in Cox's Bazar, causing severe damage to certain areas of the world's largest refugee camp. Of these, 5,000 Rohingya refugees were temporarily displaced and moved to nearby camps.

This report serves to present the findings from the Community-Based Needs Assessment conducted by DTM between March and September 2022 in Kurigram District, Bangladesh.

Rohingyar Hobor (Rohingya news) is a regular trends report produced by IOM Needs and Population Monitoring (NPM), IOM’s Protection Unit (Research and Consultations team), and ACAPS.