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Authority hidden Rohingya dead bodies : Photo 2012 By KPN News January 17, 2014  Maungdaw, Arakan State: Maungdaw high level authority ordered to security forces, not to allow anybody to enter Kila Dong (Du Cheeradan) and keeping tight security around the village, said Maung Ni from Maungdaw. The authority are trying to hide the dead bodies of Rohingya villagers which the army open fired to villager at the night of January 13, said Maung Ni. The army killed more than 10 Rohingya villagers while they open fired ten minutes to Kila Dong village after getting information from Police personnel. The army are stationed in Kharaymine  Natala village’s monastery to control the area, said Hamid, from Kila Dong. The security forces surrounded the village and most of the villagers fled from the village while army open fired to the village. Only those, who – elder, female and children – had lived in the village and it is likely the village was under control of s...

By Dhaka Tribune 15 Rohingyas also sustained injuries in the the head-on collision  At least six Rohingyas were killed and 15 others injured in a head-on collision between two jeeps on the Cox’s Bazar-Teknaf road near Ukhiya Degree College in the district  on Thursday morning. The deceased were identified as Ali Ahmmod, 45, Abul Boshar, 30, Nurul Haque, 26, Belal, 35, Mohammad Alam, 30, and Saydul Alom, 25. Quoting witnesses, Ukhiya police station Officer-in-Charge Gias Uddin Miah said: “A Cox’s Bazar-bound public jeep, locally known as Chander Gari, collided head-on with another jeep coming from the opposite direction near Ukhiya Degree College around 8am, leaving five people dead on the spot and injuring 16 others.” Later, one person succumbed to his injuries at the hospital, police said. Earlier, the OC said three injured died in hospital, but later Cox's Bazar Sadar Hospital and Ukhiya police station source confirmed that only one person died in t...

The dead-bodies and family in camp KPN News  July 3, 2013 Kutupalong, Bangladesh : A dam had built recently in Kutupalong unregistered refugee camp, near block no.D2 which killed two kids and more than two shacks destroyed on July 1 and July 3, according to refugee committee member. Two refugee kids drowned in a dam on July 1, at about 1:30pm, according to Rahamad Ullah , the father of the kids. The two kids are two brothers – Faroque (5) and Jashim (4) – drown in the dam where most of the refugee kids are playing. The dam was built recently by the local near the camp without taking permission from concerned authority, no meeting with  refugees who are living there and most of the kids play around the camp as they have no playground, no school, said Amin, a refugee committee from the camp. one side of new dam in the camp “The local did not fence the dam to protect the kids playing around the dam. The dam was built near the camp w...

The dead bodies recovered at coastline in Teknaf Teknaf, Bangladesh: Bangladesh Coast guard personnel recovered 32 bodies from the coastline at Teknaf union, under the Cox‘s Bazar district yesterday afternoon and today, Additional police Commissioner of Cox’s Bazar, said. A trawler had capsized with 100 Rohingyas in Burma, on May 14, at night, and that the 32 dead might be among the victims of the acc ident, said a local named Habib from Shapuri Dip of Bangladesh.  All the 32 victims are Burmese nationals, had set off for Malaysia from Teknaf on Wednesday. Of them, 12 are children, 6 women and others are adult males. They also found Kyat 40,000 from their clothes, the Teknaf police said.  Among the dead bodies, there was a woman clasping her baby at her chest, said Kala from Teknaf who saw the dead bodies after recovering from the sea yesterday.  The local people spotted the bodies afloat along the coastline between Baharchara and Sabrang in...