Rohingya individuals pushed into Bangladesh by the Indian Border Security Force stay at a place in Moulvibazar on Monday. | New Age photo
The Indian Border Security Force pushed 10 more Rohingyas into Bangladesh through a border point in Baralekha upazila under Moulvibazar on Monday morning.
With the latest incident, the number of people, including Rohingyas and Indian nationals, pushed into Bangladesh by BSF personnel since May 7 has increased to 1,975.
The Indian border force has so far pushed at least 169 Rohingyas, including 50 registered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in India, into Bangladesh.
Confirming the incident of pushing Rohingya people into Bangladesh, Border Guard Bangladesh Battalion-52 commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Mohammad Ariful Haque Chowdhury said that the 10 people expelled included three women and six children.
He disclosed that the 10 Rohingyas were pushed into Bangladesh through Karampur hilly border point around 5:00am.
‘The BGB personnel of Latu border outpost, however, detained them at Karampur immediately, the battalion officer said.
Quoting the detainees, he said that they had gone to India illegally through a border point of Satkhira district around 5 years ago in search of work.
‘BSF personnel have picked them up recently from different parts of India and then pushed them into Bangladesh through the Baralekha point,’ the BGB officer said.
He said that the detainees were handed over to the Baralekha police station after confirming that they were forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals and registered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Bangladesh.
Baralekha police station officer-in-charge Abul Kasem Sarker told New Age on Monday afternoon that they were completing necessary formalities to send the detained Rohingyas to refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar.
