41 Bangladeshis arrested in India
A large number of masons from Bangladesh regularly enter India in search of work and spread out across various parts of the country, police sources said.
A boat carrying scores of Rohingya people aboard capsized in the Bay of Bengal close to Bangladesh’s border with Myanmar on Monday, a police official said.
Dozens of people were reported missing, Xinhua news agency reported.
The UN has raised the number of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh to 537,000.
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The crisis began on August 25, when an insurgent group of the Rohingya Muslim minority staged a series of attacks on police and army posts in the Rakhine state.
The Myanmar military responded with large-scale offensive triggering the mass migration.
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