Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar poured into neighbouring Bangladesh this week with some feared drowned after a boat sank in a river during a bid to flee escalating violence that has killed at least 86 people and displaced about 30,000.
Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar poured into neighbouring Bangladesh this week with some feared drowned after a boat sank in a river during a bid to flee escalating violence that has killed at least 86 people and displaced about 30,000.
"I don't know where my wife and children are," Islam said.
"I somehow was able to cross the border to save my life." Up to 30,000 people are now estimated to have been displaced and thousands more have been affected by the recent fighting, the United Nations says.
UN agencies have not given specific numbers of fleeing Rohingyas, but aid workers told Reuters news agency that hundreds crossed the border to Bangladesh over the weekend and on Monday. Under military lockdown, a humanitarian effort to provide food and medicine to more than 150,000 people has been suspended for more than 40 days in the area, home mostly to Rohingya. Many people in mainly Buddhist Myanmar see the country's 1.1 million Rohingya as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
UN calls for probe into attacks on Rohingya in Myanmar Shawkat Ara, a girl in a refugee camp in Teknaf, who had arrived from Myanmar by boat on Tuesday, said that she hoped to return one day and locate missing relatives. "When there is peace in our country, I will go back and I will try to find out about my father and uncles," she said.
"I somehow was able to cross the border to save my life." Up to 30,000 people are now estimated to have been displaced and thousands more have been affected by the recent fighting, the United Nations says.
UN agencies have not given specific numbers of fleeing Rohingyas, but aid workers told Reuters news agency that hundreds crossed the border to Bangladesh over the weekend and on Monday. Under military lockdown, a humanitarian effort to provide food and medicine to more than 150,000 people has been suspended for more than 40 days in the area, home mostly to Rohingya. Many people in mainly Buddhist Myanmar see the country's 1.1 million Rohingya as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
UN calls for probe into attacks on Rohingya in Myanmar Shawkat Ara, a girl in a refugee camp in Teknaf, who had arrived from Myanmar by boat on Tuesday, said that she hoped to return one day and locate missing relatives. "When there is peace in our country, I will go back and I will try to find out about my father and uncles," she said.
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