Bangladeshi police detain Rohingya refugees headed to Malaysia

‘Bangladeshi security forces have detained more than a dozen members of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya Muslim community and two men accused of attempting to smuggle them into Malaysia by boat.
Mainuddin Khan, a regional police chief, said on Wednesday that they were arrested in the Bangladeshi border town of Teknaf.
“Acting on a tip-off, we arrested 19 Myanmar nationals from a house in Teknaf on Tuesday as they gathered there for a boat trip to Malaysia,” Khan said, adding, “They said they paid Tk 10,000 ($125) each for the trip.”
Khan added that the two Bangladeshis were also charged with people smuggling offences after arranging the trip to Malaysia.
In recent years, thousands of Rohingya Muslims fleeing persecution in neighboring Myanmar have taken refuge in Bangladesh’s southeastern towns of Cox’s Bazar, Ukhia and Teknaf.’
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