3,000 more Rohingyas waiting at no-man’s land to enter Bangladesh

Around 3,000 more Rohingyas have gathered at the no-man’s land of Anjuman Para under Ukhia upazila in Cox’s Bazar to enter Bangladesh.

Major Iqbal Ahmed, deputy captain of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB)-34 Battalion, said some 20,000 Rohingyas have been staying in Medi border point area of Myanmar for the last two days.

Of them, some 3,000 Rohingyas, most of them are women and children, crossed the Naf river and entered the no-man’s land on Wednesday evening, he said.

They later took shelter in several fish hatcheries and Anjumanpara dam area under the open sky, BGB official Ahmed said, adding that the remaining 17,000 others have been staying on Medi border.

Sultan Ahmed, a UP member of Anjuman Para Ward No 9 of Palangkhali union of Ukhiya, said some 3,000 Rohingyas took shelter at the no-man’s land of Anjumanpara on Wednesday evening, reports UNB.

On information, relatives of the Rohingyas, who are sheltered in Cox’s Bazar camps, also gathered there to find out their kith and kin ones, he said.

Ukhia Upazila Nirbahi Officer Md Nikaruzzaman, said, “I hear that around 3,000 Rohingyas, crossing the Naf River, have taken shelter in the zero-point area of Anjuman Para.”

Cox’s Bazar’s International Organisation of Migration (IOM) Co-ordinator Saikat Biswas said many more Rohingyas are still waiting on the other side of the border to enter Bangladesh.