Six year-old Noor Sahara, a young Rohingya girl, whose mother is missing and who crossed over the border with her neighbour Roshida poses for a photograph near a refugee camp in Teknaf on Wednesday.
About 200 Rohingyas were floating on the river Naff for 48 hours till Wednesday afternoon in a desperate move to enter Bangladesh fleeing violence against the religious minority community in Myanmar while a regional commander-level courtesy meeting was held between the border guards of Bangladesh and Mynamar in Cox’s Bazar.
Rohingya Muslims continued to enter Bangladesh through river border of Teknaf and land border in Bandarban on Wednesday, raising the number of the ethnic minority people sneaking into the country to about 1,500 in past 10 days, said officials and local people.
The government on Wednesday summoned Myanmar ambassador Myo Myint Than and conveyed deep concern at the continued deteriorating situation in the Rakhine State that caused influx and many of distressed Myanmar’s citizens including women, children and elderly people entered into Bangladesh.
Thousands more ‘have been reported to gathering at the border’ for sneaking into Bangladesh territory, the ambassador was told.
Myanmar ambassador Myo Myint Than was called to the foreign ministry to meet the secretary (bilateral and consular) Kamrul Ahsan, who handed over a Note Verbale to the ambassador containing Bangladesh’s concern.
Rohingya Muslims continued crossing through the river Naff and land border Tumbrow, Gungdom of Nikhyangchari upazila in Bandarban, local people said.
‘Some Rohingya people have crossed into Bangladesh through Ukhiya and Teknaf as Myanmar troops launched crackdown on them particularly in Northern Maungaw,’ Border Guard Bangladesh south-east regional commander Brigadier General Khondoker Farid Hassan said at a briefing in Cox’s Bazar
Earlier on the day, the regional commander of Chittagong, also an additional director general of border guards, held a courtesy meeting with the deputy director general of Myanmar’s Border Guard Police, Thura San Lwin, also the commanding officer of Maunghaw, in Cox’s Bazar amidst fresh influx of Rohingyas.
‘Myanmar delegates have said some innocent Rohingya Muslims were also uprooted from their homes due some incidents happened at Northern Maungdaw on October 9,’ said Farid Hassan.
Myanmar delegates told border guards that some armed miscreants and insurgents attacked three Border Guard Police camps at Northern Maungdaw and killed border guard police and looted firearms and bullets on October 9.
Rohingya Muslims continued crossing through the river Naff and land border Tumbrow, Gungdom of Nikhyangchari upazila in Bandarban, local people said.
At least 200 Rohingyas uprooted from their homesteads in the Rakhine state were floating in the bordering river Naff on 17 wooden boats at
Totadia point, a midstream of the river, for about 48 hours till Wednesday afternoon in disparate attempts to enter Bangladesh for shelters, said local people and officials.
Ukhiya police arrested at least 62 Rohingyas, mostly women and children, at different points on Cox’s Baza-Teknaf road. They were kept under Ukhiya police custody, said officials.
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Source: New Age
