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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Massive Fire Destroys Delhi’s Only Rohingya Camp -Tarique Anwar

Massive Fire Destroys Delhi’s Only Rohingya Camp -Tarique Anwar

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published Published on Jun 13, 2021   modified Modified on Jun 17, 2021

-Newsclick.in

This is not an isolated incident. This was the fifth conflagration in the camp over the past nine years.

New Delhi: It was a usual night for Zahid Hussain. Unaware of what destiny has in store for him and others, the 23-year-old, like his fellow Burmese refugee neighbours in the Rohingya camp in South East Delhi’s Kanchan Kunj, had gone to bed after having dinner at 10 pm on June 12. As he was slipping into slumber, he overheard screams of some people.

He ventured out of his shanty and saw huge flames engulfing the makeshift camps — where around 250 Rohingya refugees had been living. All he could do at the time was save his wife and one-and-a-half-year-old son.

The massive fire, which broke out at 11:55 pm, turned all 56 shanties in the refugee camp into ashes within minutes. All the occupants lost everything they owned. Strong winds helped fuel the fire.

The daily wagers from the Rohingya camp make ends meet by working as construction workers, running small shops and driving e-rickshaws. They keep their savings in cash. The Saturday night’s fire wiped out all their savings apart from other belongings such as clothes, utensils, food items, and furniture, etc. The ruins lying there bear testimony to the destruction.

“After months of hard work as a labourer at a construction site, I had saved Rs 46,000. I was planning to buy an e-rickshaw on EMI to ease my life. The fire was spreading so fast that I could not get time to take the cash along while running with my family to safety. We all now have to start life from scratch, just like we did when we had first come to Delhi in 2012,” Hussain told NewsClick as he held his son in his lap, tears rolling down his face.

Wearing a lungi (long piece of cloth worn as a loincloth) and bare from the waist up with his child, who had no clothes on his body, he said, “We don’t even have clothes to put on.”

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Newsclick.in, 13 June, 2021, https://www.newsclick.in/massive-fire-destroys-delhis-only-rohingya-camp?fbclid=IwAR2tM1_KhqD6H0PLU1ZLopyOjK7Zr-C6unLaEdTj63tizO_bXETPzkbiqK0


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