17 bodies recovered as another Rohingya boat capsizes

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BGB members stand guard at no man's land at Tomru Bazar in Bandarban's Naikhyangchhari upazila as some Rohingya children wade across a canal to collect drinking water. Photo: Anisur Rahman/ Files
BGB members stand guard at no man’s land at Tomru Bazar in Bandarban’s Naikhyangchhari upazila as some Rohingya children wade across a canal to collect drinking water. Photo: Anisur Rahman/ Files

17 bodies recovered as another Rohingya boat capsizes

ASEAN+ August 31, 2017 12:13

By The Daily Star
Asia News Network
UNB, Cox’s Bazar

Seventeen bodies were recovered this morning from Naf river in Shah Pori Dweep area in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar where a boat capsized in the river last night.

With the recovery of the 17 bodies, the death toll from Rohingya boat capsizes rises to 21 as four bodies of Rohingyas were recovered from the river yesterday after a boat, carrying around 25 people, capsized.

Local sources said hundreds of Rohingyas from Myanmar entered Shah Pori Dweep, an island, riding boats last night.

When the fleet reached Majhir ghat point, one of the boats capsized around 11:30pm yesterday and all the passengers went missing.

Later, locals and newly intruded Rohingyas spotted 17 bodies floating at several points of the Naf river in the morning and informed police, said M Mainuddin Khan, officer-in-charge (OC) of Teknaf Police Station.

A team of police rushed in and recovered the bodies that include 10 children and seven females, said the OC.

The identity of the victims could not be known immediately.

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