Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on Friday sent back 10 Rohingyas to Myanmar from Teknaf in Cox's Bazar.
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The BGB on two occasions sent back three males at about 2:00pm and one male, three females and three children at about 6:15pm to Myanmar, our Chittagong correspondent reports, quoting Commanding Officer Lt Col Zahid Hasan of BGB 42 battalion at Teknaf.
The BGB in separate drives detained the 10 Rohingya refugees in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar early Friday on charge of trespassing on Bangladesh territory. A patrol team of BGB held seven Rohingyas -- one male, three females and three children -- from Shah Pori Island around 5:00am. Earlier around 1:00am, BGB men conducted another drive at Naikkhong Para village and held three male Rohingyas, the BGB official said.
Zahid said Myanmar citizens and Rohingyas usually try to enter Bangladesh before Ramadan every year to earn money.
The BGB sent back a total of 1,279 Rohingya refugees until Friday since sectarian violence broke out in the Rakhine state of Myanmar on June 11, he added. |