Influx of Rohingyas in Port City aimed at collecting Jakat

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Chittagong Bureau :
Fleeing Rohingyas from Myanmar are gathering in port city ahead of Eid-ul- Azha. Many Rohingyas including children and women came here for begging and collecting money of Jakat, according to sources.
Salima Khaton, a Rohingya woman along with two children and husband crossed the border and entered Cox’s Bazar and later reached the port city.
She is running to door to door for Jakat and new cloths for her children in Chittagong just before the Eid-ul- Azha . She said, Rohingya people heard that the people of Chittagong are rich and give huge money and cloths to the poor. So, she came here like many others through the border and trying to collect money.
“If anybody supports to stay here, she will live in Chittagong,” she said. “Many Rohingyas are living here. I hope some one of them will help her family to live here,” she believed. Not only Salima Khaton many other Rohingya people gathered in Chittagong.
Many of them are seen in front of markets, many other in the important places in the city. Sources said, huge Rohingyas have crossed the border through illegal process recently. Despite measures of the government, the Rohingyas are crossing the border regularly.
Commi-ssioner of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) Iqbal Bahar told the journalists that if the entrance of Rohingya continues, the law and order situation would be deteriorated
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