Six Rohingya were killed early on Friday after a blaze tore through an overcrowded camp for the persecuted minority in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, the local fire service said.
Global attention has focused on the 720,000 Rohingya Muslims forced from the State’s north into Bangladesh last year by a brutal military crackdown.
The UN Human Rights Council has accused top Myanmar generals of genocide over the bloody campaign, allegations the country strongly denies.
