COX'S BAZAR (AFP) - Dozens of Rohingya refugees believed to have come from two boats stranded at sea for weeks as they tried to reach Malaysia landed on the Bangladesh coast on Saturday (May 2), Rohingya community leaders said.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
COX'S BAZAR - Dozens of Rohingya refugees believed to have come from two boats stranded at sea for weeks as they tried to reach Malaysia landed on the Bangladesh coast on Saturday , Rohingya community leaders said.
Local people tipped off the coast guard and 29 people were detained and about 10 fled, police and security officials said.But Mr Shobbir Ahmed, a Rohingya at one of the refugee camps in south-eastern Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar told AFP that two of his daughters who had been on the stranded boats were among those who landed Saturday.Mr Ahmed said he paid a Rohingya intermediary about US$2,230 for them to make the trip.
There are about one million Rohingya in camps in Bangladesh. Most fled a 2017 military crackdown in Myanmar and many favour going to Muslim-majority Malaysia where there are more work opportunities.
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