Photo Cox’s bus
terminal
Cox’s Bazar,
Bangladesh: Police personnel of Cox’s Bazar Model Police Station arrested and
detained eight Rohingya women on March 19, 2013, Hossain from Cox’s Bazar town
said. “Police arrested the Rohingya females from the Cox’s bus terminal on
Tuesday night at about 11.30 pm while they were trying to go to Dhaka from
Cox’s Bazar.”
The arrestees were
identified as Rokeya Begum (16), Setara Begum (18), Nurjahan Begum (40), Kismot
Ara (18), Hasina Akter (14), Rushni (14) Ashira (20), and Rashida Begum (20).
They all belong to Arakan State, Burma.
Officer-in-charge
(OC) M Jashim Uddin of Cox’s Bazar Model Police station said acting on a
tip-off, a team of police arrested the said Rohingya women from the bus
terminal with suspect as the females entry in the country illegally.
The officer also
said, “We haven’t found any travel documents from them to enter Bangladesh from
Arakan, Burma.
According to
sources, there were three males in the group, but they managed to escape
sensing the presence of the law enforcers.
Regarding the
statement of the arrestees, they are citizens of Arakan State, Burma and had
come to the bus terminal to go to Dhaka during the police interrogation,
according to Officer-in-charge (OC).