Staff Reporter :
Law enforcers detained 45 Rohingya men from a house in Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram on Wednesday .
All the arrestees are between 18 to 25 years of age, our Chattogram correspondent reports quoting Shamim Sheikh, Inspector (Investigation) of Sitakunda Model Police Station.
Acting on secret information, law enforcers conducted a raid at Keshabpur Mollahpara village in Shonaichuri area around the midnight, the official said.
They were arrested for intruding into Bangladesh from Maungdaw in Myanmar, he said.
They came to this house at different times, the official said adding that they cannot speak Bangla properly, according to police official.
The Rohingya men were taken to the police station.
“They confessed in primary interrogation that they have come from Myanmar’s Maungdaw town,” he added.
“All of them don’t understand our language and are behaving like newcomers,” Sheikh said, adding the already stayed Rohingya refugees are lightly familiar with Bangla language.
“We are not sure whether they are fresh Rohingyas who entered Bangladesh, but they seem to be new here,” he added.
He said, a case was filed against the arrested Rohingyas under the Foreigners Act, the police official further said.
