On Sunday afternoon, a fire broke out at a Rohingya settlement in the Nuh district of Haryana, affecting the lives of over 50 families.
According to reports, the incident occurred at the Chandeni camp in Mewat. Fire department officials were notified about the blaze at 03:25 pm, following which, they rushed to the spot and the inferno was contained after three hours. While no casualties were reported, the fire gutted the settlement, leaving 187 Rohingyas without a home.
Inspector Sanjay Kumar, SHO, Nuh police station, told The Indian Express, “No one was killed or injured, but the shanties were entirely gutted. Nobody has approached us to register a case so far.”
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A Rohingya settlement near Kalindi Kunj, Delhi. (Courtesy: Express photo/Oinam Anand)
“All our belongings are gone. All that is left are the clothes we are wearing,” a resident told The Indian Express. Nearly 215 people were nestled at the settlement, the report added.
The cause of the fire was found to be a short circuit, which then triggered the bursting of gas cylinders, The Times of India reported. Some of the residents even lost their identification cards in the fire, the report added. According to The Hindu, the families had gone to pay a visit to the SP’s office to be fingerprinted, when the incident occurred.
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This fire #Rohingya refuges incident is in Chandeni camp 1in Mewat at around 2:50 pm while most of the families , the fire started from Alishan’s home in the absence of his family. No body knew that how the incident happened.
foods, clothes water medicine and emergency shelter. pic.twitter.com/oZi32EP6dh— RIGHTS FOR ROHINGYA (@rohringya) May 27, 2018
The incident comes after nearly 50 shanties at a Rohingya settlement in Delhi’s Sarita Vihar were reduced to ashes, rendering 228 residents homeless.
