Staff Reporter :
Bangladesh plans to build a vast refugees camp in the Cox’s Bazar districts in the wake of an unprecedented influx of ethnic Rohingya from neighbouring Myanmar.
The camp will be built on 2,000 acres in Cox’s Bazar to house about 400,000 refugees who have poured into the country over the past three weeks, officials said.
They said the new settlements will be built within the next 10 days.
More than 400,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar into Bangladesh since violence erupted in Buddhist-dominated Myanmar’s Rakhine state on August 25, says the United Nations on Saturday.
“We have planed to construct 14,000 shelters, each housing six families, with the help of international aid organizations and the Bangladesh army,” Secretary for Disaster Management Shah Kamal, told The New Nation on Saturday.
The Disaster Management and Relief Ministry will coordinate the matter, he added. Rohingya refugees, who fled persecution in Myanmar, are facing challenges of food, nutrition, shelter, water and sanitation.
A total of 8,500 temporary toilets will be built and 14 “makeshift warehouses” will be set up near the shelters.
