 A fire raced through a crammed camp of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh's southern coastal district of Cox's Bazaar, gutting more than 1,000 shelters and leaving thousands homeless, a fire official and the United Nations said the fire broke out around midnight on January 6 that Kutupalong camp in Akiya and spread quickly, banned by strong winds, Shafiqa Islam, head of the Akiya fire station, told the Associated Press. The fire was big, and it destroyed about 1,040 shelters in the camp, he said. We took about two hours to get the blaze under control, engaging 10 fire units from Akiya and other stations in the district. An Associated Press reporter at the scene said that thousands of refugees, including women and children, rushed to a nearby open field with their belongings as the fire started spreading aggressively during the early hours on Sunday fire in the refugee camps is common and in the past similar incidents have gutted thousands of homes. In March, a fire left thousands of refugees homeless temporarily. More than 1 million Rohingya refugees have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar over several decades, including about 740,000 who crossed the border starting in late August 2017, when the Myanmar military launched a brutal crackdown.