Our Correspondent :
Twenty-four Rohingyas including men, women and children were detained from a forest while fleeing Bhashan Char refugee camp at Hatia upazila in Noakhali district.
The detained Rohingya included five men, five women and 14 children.
They were Ehsan Ullah, 22, Kismat Ara, 21, Sumaiya, 5, Akifa Akter, 3, and 10-month-old Rashed Ullah of Bhasan Char Asrayan’s No. 28 Cluster; Senoara, 25, Rea Moni, 4, Sipa Moni, 2 of No. 8 Cluster; Nurul Azim, 23, Saikat Ara, 18, Nurul Hakim, 10 of No. 15 Cluster; Ibrahim, 31, Jamalida, 26, Abdul Quader, 8, Noor Qaida, 5, 10-month-old Fatema, Alam Reza, 7 of No. 23 Cluster; Ali, 19 of Cluster No. 60; Sefayet Ullah, 28, Hasina, 26, Sumaiya, 5, Nayan, 12 and Jannatul Ferdous of Cluster No. 24.
They were detained from the jungle, 10 km north-south of Bhasan Char
around 9:30pm on Thursday, said Noakhali District Superintendent of Police Md Shahidul Islam.
The Rohingyas from different clusters of shelters fled and took position in the jungle to escape by boat through a gang of brokers.
“The Armed Police Battalion (APBn) Civil Team and the Coast Guard raided the forest around 9:30pm on a tip-off. All were later handed over to the Bhasan Char CIC office through the police to take action against them,” he added.
