AT Correspondent,
Sittwe
April 23, 2017
A cyclone has hit
Arakan State and destroyed several Internally Displace Person shacks in Nabukan
camp in Kyauktaw including many other areas of Sittwe and Maungdaw Townships
last night, 22 April 2017.
According to
correspondent report, in Nabukan camp of Kyauktaw Township, there are 9 shacks
where 8 rooms in each shack in total 72 rooms which have been destroyed by a
strong cyclone last night.
The camp was
established in 2013 after the 2012 communal violence that forced tens of
thousands of Rohingya displaced who have been still living in the displacement
camps which were destroyed by last night hurricane, said a refugee.
Now the IDPs are
shelter less in Nabukan camp in Kyauktaw where more than 500 IDPs live and they
are facing shelter crisis at the moment as their shacks were flown away by
cyclone last night.
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In Maungdaw also, it
hit many areas and destroyed several houses of Rohingya in Maungdaw North and
South.
Besides, the cyclone
hit the makeshift camps of unregistered Rohingya refugee camp in Kutupalong of
Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh and hundreds of shacks were flown away by
cyclone last night.
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Now the refugees are
most suffers after their shack rooms have been destroyed by tropical storm in
Kutupalong makeshift.
It is also learnt
that hundreds of sheds in Sittwe IDP camps have been destroyed and flown by
cyclone and the refugees are now living under the open sky without shelter
causing them suffer a lot with their young little children in the sun and rain.
The refugees in both
Arakan and Bangladesh through Arakan Times would like to appeal the concerned
organizations to provide humanitarian aids and re-construct their shack rooms
so that they can somehow live as human beings.