Bangladesh authorities says that they have stopped dozens of Rohingya Muslims from being trafficked to Malaysia by boat.
Coast Guard members with Rohingya refugees and alleged traffickers in Teknaf Coast Guard Station.
The clash took place on Tuesday when police acting on a tip-off raided an area near camps set up for Rohingya refugees from Myanmar in southeast Bangladesh, said Pradip Kumar Das, the officer in charge of the police station in the town of Teknaf. Some of the smugglers fled, but two were wounded – both Rohingya themselves – and died on the way to hospital. Four policemen were wounded, Das said.
Bangladesh is home to nearly 1 million Rohingya Muslims from mostly Buddhist Myanmar. Most fled a Myanmar military-led crackdown in 2017 that UN investigators have said was conducted with “genocidal intent”.
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