Four Rohingya drown as refugee boat capsizes off Bangladesh

 

 

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - Four Rohingya Muslims, a man, woman and two children, drowned when a small wooden fishing boat carrying dozens of refugees fleeing ethnic violence in Myanmar capsized off the Bangladesh coast on Tuesday, police said.

 

People living in the coastal strip south of the Bangladesh port of Cox's Bazar fished 37 survivors out of the water and 11 have been admitted to hospital in a critical condition, Mohammad Abul Khair, the officer in charge at Ukhiya police station, said.

 

The boat had keeled over in choppy seas as rain fell. According to survivors they had paid 50,000 kyat ($37) to be taken to Bangladesh. They had abandoned their homes in Buthidaung, in the strife-torn north of Myanmar's Rakhine State.

 

More than 600,000 Rohingya have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh since the military in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar launched a counter-insurgency operation after attacks on security posts by Rohingya militants in late August.

 

United Nations officials have described the Myanmar military's action as "ethnic cleansing", an accusation that Myanmar denies.

 

Many of the Rohingya refugees have made the precarious sea and river crossing to reach the safety of predominately Muslim Bangladesh, though dozens have drowned making the attempt.

 

($1 = 1,364.0000 kyat)

 

(Reporting by Nurul Islam and Ruma Paul in Dhaka; Writing by Simon Cameron-Moore; Editing by Michael Perry)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-10-31

So sad but actual event taking place on that border the bloody Burmese army is killing, raping, looting mercilessly innocent civilians.

21 hours ago, Nemesis7 said:

So sad but actual event taking place on that border the bloody Burmese army is killing, raping, looting mercilessly innocent civilians.

Rubbish, there is no rape going on, the initial violence came from the insurgents, the citizens of Myanmar are actually nice people, who could blame them for not wanting Pakis in their country

Its the Rohingaya that have always been the problem.thats why nobody wants them not even muslim countrys

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