At least nine Rohingya refugees were injured as a gas cylinder, used for inflating balloons, blasted at a camp in Ukhia upazila of Cox's Bazar yesterday morning.

Md Abul Khair, officer-in-charge of Ukhia Police Station, said the injured were admitted to a medical camp in the upazila's Kutupalong area.

A cylinder went off with a big bang when a vendor was inflating balloons at the camp around 7:00am, leaving the nine injured, our correspondent reported quoting the OC.

The identities of the Rohingyas could not be known till the time this report was filed.