Staff Reporter :
The death toll in Rohingya trawler capsize incident in Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar rose to 60 after eight more bodies were recovered from Inani beach of the Bay on Friday.
The police and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) sources said the death toll may rise further.
Officer-in-Charge of Ukhia Police Station Kai Kislo said on Friday that locals rescued 27 Rohingya people from the sea while several others managed to swim ashore from the sea. Nine of them were given treatment in local hospital.
A trawler carrying Rohingyas fleeing from Myanmar capsized in the Bay near Inani beach in Cox’s Bazar. At least 10 children and five women died in the capsize that took place around 5pm on Thursday.
The trawler overturned in the rough sea just yards from the shore after hitting some submerged object, survivors and witnesses said.
It was raining hard when the boat was trying to anchor at Patuartek of Ukhiya around 5:00pm amid strong wind and high tide.
One survivor told the media that the boat was carrying about 90 people, many of them women and children.
Coastguards said the craft was too small to carry a large convoy of men.
The number of Rohingyas crossing the border into Bangladesh to flee violence in the Rakhine State of Myanmar since August 25 has exceeded five lakh on Thursday as the influx continued.
The UN termed Myanmar Army’s crackdown on Rohingya Muslims a ‘textbook example of ethnic cleansing.’
The death toll in Rohingya trawler capsize incident in Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar rose to 60 after eight more bodies were recovered from Inani beach of the Bay on Friday.
The police and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) sources said the death toll may rise further.
Officer-in-Charge of Ukhia Police Station Kai Kislo said on Friday that locals rescued 27 Rohingya people from the sea while several others managed to swim ashore from the sea. Nine of them were given treatment in local hospital.
A trawler carrying Rohingyas fleeing from Myanmar capsized in the Bay near Inani beach in Cox’s Bazar. At least 10 children and five women died in the capsize that took place around 5pm on Thursday.
The trawler overturned in the rough sea just yards from the shore after hitting some submerged object, survivors and witnesses said.
It was raining hard when the boat was trying to anchor at Patuartek of Ukhiya around 5:00pm amid strong wind and high tide.
One survivor told the media that the boat was carrying about 90 people, many of them women and children.
Coastguards said the craft was too small to carry a large convoy of men.
The number of Rohingyas crossing the border into Bangladesh to flee violence in the Rakhine State of Myanmar since August 25 has exceeded five lakh on Thursday as the influx continued.
The UN termed Myanmar Army’s crackdown on Rohingya Muslims a ‘textbook example of ethnic cleansing.’
