Narinjara News
Four bodies of Rohingyas
recovered from Kutupalong camp
Cox’s Bazar 20: A day after
Thursday’s violent clash, a joint force of BDR (Bangladesh Riffle), police and ansars recovered four bodies of Rohingyas
and arrested 12 more people from Kutupalong camp in Ukhiya Thana on Friday, according
to the several local news papers.
The joint force cordoned off the camp overnight from
“The four might have been killed in Thursday’s cross fire”,
the police said. Pourashava authorities buried the
bodies after conducting their postmortem.
Police also nabbed 12 Rohingyas
from the camp, raising the number of arrested to 22 in two days.
BDR and police patrols have been stepped up in the area to
avert further violence.
Over 100 Muslim Rohingyas and
law-enforcers were injured in Thursday’s violent clashes at Kutupalong
refugee camp after the “Rohingyas terrorists”
confined a police officer.
Since 1992, 236,460 Rohingyas
refugees, who are Muslims, were repatriated. They had fled to
At present, 19841 officially recognized Rohingya
refugees of 2,976 families are staying in two camps-Nayapara
camps in Teknaf Thana and Kutupalong camp of Ukhiya under
the Cox’sbazar district.
But there are about 200,000 ‘unofficially estimated’
refugees in Cox’sbazar district, the report said. #
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