The blaze which swept through the world’s largest refugee camp last week was a “planned and purposeful act of sabotage,” investigators say. The fire on 5 March in Bangladesh left 15,000 Rohingya refugees homeless and gutted some 2,800 shelters. Militant groups had started the fire to “dominate” the camps, said the government official leading the probe.

 

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