<p>A fire on Tuesday raced through a crowded camp housing Rohingya refugees in southern Bangladesh, destroying nearly 400 shanties and shops, a Bangladeshi official and the U.N.'s refugee agency said.</p>.<p>No casualties were immediately reported, the refugee agency said in a Facebook post.</p>.<p>The agency, known as the UNHCR, said the fire broke out at the Lambashia camp in Kutupalong in Cox's Bazar district on Tuesday morning.</p>.<p>More than 1 million refugees live in the district bordering Myanmar, from where the refugees crossed the border into Bangladesh.</p>.<p>Mohammad Nikaruzzman Chowdhury, the area's chief government official, said firefighters rushed to the scene and extinguished the blaze in an hour.</p>.<p>It was not immediately clear what caused the fire, but local media said it may have been caused by an explosion of a gas cylinder kept in a shop in the area.</p>.<p>The UNHCR said it mobilized emergency response teams to provide the refugees with food and other items.</p>.<p>Most of the refugees fled their homes in Myanmar after its military launched a harsh crackdown in response to an attack by a Rohingya insurgent group in 2017.</p>.<p>Myanmar's security forces have been accused of committing mass rapes, killings and burning thousands of homes in the crackdown.</p>.<p>The Muslim Rohingya are not recognized as citizens in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, rendering them stateless, and also face other forms of state-sanctioned discrimination.</p>
<p>A fire on Tuesday raced through a crowded camp housing Rohingya refugees in southern Bangladesh, destroying nearly 400 shanties and shops, a Bangladeshi official and the U.N.'s refugee agency said.</p>.<p>No casualties were immediately reported, the refugee agency said in a Facebook post.</p>.<p>The agency, known as the UNHCR, said the fire broke out at the Lambashia camp in Kutupalong in Cox's Bazar district on Tuesday morning.</p>.<p>More than 1 million refugees live in the district bordering Myanmar, from where the refugees crossed the border into Bangladesh.</p>.<p>Mohammad Nikaruzzman Chowdhury, the area's chief government official, said firefighters rushed to the scene and extinguished the blaze in an hour.</p>.<p>It was not immediately clear what caused the fire, but local media said it may have been caused by an explosion of a gas cylinder kept in a shop in the area.</p>.<p>The UNHCR said it mobilized emergency response teams to provide the refugees with food and other items.</p>.<p>Most of the refugees fled their homes in Myanmar after its military launched a harsh crackdown in response to an attack by a Rohingya insurgent group in 2017.</p>.<p>Myanmar's security forces have been accused of committing mass rapes, killings and burning thousands of homes in the crackdown.</p>.<p>The Muslim Rohingya are not recognized as citizens in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, rendering them stateless, and also face other forms of state-sanctioned discrimination.</p>