A major fire has gutted hundreds of shelters in a Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila, the latest in a series of blazes to hit refugee settlements. The incident caused no immediate casualties.

Authorities said the fire broke out in Block F of Camp 24 in the Leda area shortly after 10 p.m. on Sunday, December 28. It rapidly spread, destroying over a hundred refugee shelters and several houses belonging to local residents, according to sources at the scene.

Camp leader Majhi Aminullah stated the fire started suddenly and engulfed the shelters within moments. The cause remains undetermined, said Mohammad Alam, chairman of the Leda Camp Management Committee.

Fire service personnel, refugees, police, and local administration officials worked jointly to extinguish the flames. A police team was dispatched immediately after the alert, said Saiful Islam, officer-in-charge of Teknaf Model Police Station. The acting chairman of Hnila Union, Mohammad Ali, inspected the damage on Monday morning.

Fire incidents have become recurrent in Rohingya camps. Just last Friday, a hospital and five shelters were burned. A devastating fire in the Kutupalong camp on December 24 last year destroyed over a thousand shelters and killed one person. Rohingya refugees reported more than 200 blazes across the settlements in past seven years.