Two more Rohingya leaders killed in ambush inside camps

This 29 August, 2017 photo shows Rohingya refugees rest at Kutupalong refugee camp along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border near the Bangladeshi town of UkhiyaAFP file photo

Unidentified assailants slaughtered two Rohingya leaders in an attack at a Rohingya camp in Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar Saturday evening, reports news agency UNB.

Moulvi Yunus and Anwar would work as head majhi and assistant head majhi respectively of the camp no. 13 in Ukhiya.

Faruk Ahmed, assistant superintendent of the Armed Police Battalion (ApBN), said a group equipped with lethal weapons carried out the attack on the two at the camp at around 6:00pm, leaving them critically injured.

Yunus succumbed to his injuries on the spot while Anwar was referred to the Upazila Health Complex where he died at around 9:00pm, he added.

An adequate number of forces were deployed in and around the camp to fend off any further attack, he said, adding that they are using all equipment at their disposal to find out more about the case and to nab the real perpetrators in this connection.

Including the latest deaths, 13 people have been killed inside the camps during the last four months, of whom eight were serving in voluntary community leadership roles such as ‘majhi’ and head majhi.