On Monday, a massive fire swept through a Rohingya refugee camp in southern Bangladesh, killing several people. Officials have started looking into what caused it. Thousands of homes have been destroyed by the burn. On Tuesday, officials are looking through the wreckage in search of more casualties.

Officials estimate that five people have died and at least 20,000 Rohingya have fled the settlements in the third fire in four days.

According to Reuters, a fire tore through the Balukhali camp near the southeastern town of Cox's Bazar late Monday, destroying hundreds of homes.

After retrieving the remains, police have reported only two deaths. Witnesses from the Rohingya community, on the other hand, said that many people had died in the blaze, and have left tens of thousands without shelter.

According to some witnesses, barbed wire fencing surrounding the camp trapped several refugees, resulting in some deaths and prompting international humanitarian organizations to demand its withdrawal.

Nearly a million of Myanmar's Muslim communities, many of whom fled a military crackdown in their homeland in 2017, live in crowded and squalid conditions in the Cox's Bazar district's camps.

“The source of the fire is still uncertain,” a senior police official, Zakir Hossain Khan, said.

50,000 people were displaced, according to the humanitarian organization Refugees International. It was already overcrowded camps with almost one million Rohingya refugees. The full extent of the destruction will not be known for some time. Many children have gone missing, and others have been unable to leave the camps due to barbed wire.

Similar reports have been heard by John Quinley of Fortify Rights, a rights group operating in the region, who added that the fences had previously hindered the delivery of humanitarian relief and essential services at the camps.

Quinley issued a statement saying, "The government must dismantle the fences and protect refugees. Several major fires have occurred in the camps, including one in January of this year. The authorities must conduct a thorough investigation.”

The vast majority of people in the camps left Myanmar in 2017 as a result of a military-led assault on Rohingya Muslims, which UN investigators say was carried out with "genocidal intent," allegations Myanmar denies.