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Wednesday, June 13, 2012
113 more refugees on 3 trawlers pushed back
Bangladesh border and coast guards pushed back three more trawlers with 113 people aboard on Wednesday afternoon as they entered Bangladesh through Cox's Bazar for refuge from sectarian violence in Rakhine state.
The first trawler carrying 30 Myanmar nationals was pushed back around 12:00pm, the second at about 5:00pm with 44 people and the last one at 5:30pm with 39 people on board, our Chittagong correspondent reports quoting Captain Kamrul Islam, operation officer of BGB 42 battalion.
Earlier on the same day, four trawlers and a boat carrying 124 Myanmar nationals were intercepted while entering Bangladesh illegally.
The BGB and coast guard personnel seized those starting from 12midnight till filing of this report at 9:00pm, the correspondent said quoting second-in-command of BGB 44 battalion Maj Shafiqur Rahman.
After seeing an empty boat floating in the Naf river in the midnight, Border Guard Bangladesh personnel went close to it and found a one and a half months old baby alone on the vessel.
It took two and a half hours to the BGB men to go close to the boat and rescue the baby, said Maj Md Saiful Wadud, operation officer of BGB, Teknaf said.
The team handed over the baby to one Kabir, a local people, for taking care of it, he said.
BGB seized a trawler carrying 44 Myanmarese near Gularchar of Teknaf around 4:00am while a patrol team of Bangladesh Coast Guard seized another trawler with 39 passengers at St Martin.
The border guards noticed one more trawler at the mouth of the Naf river and the Bay around 7:00am. They seized and brought the vessel, which was carrying 30 people, to a nearby jetty.
The guards with the help of local people provided the intruders with dry foods, water and saline.
BGB and coast guards on Monday pushed back 11 boats carrying around 500 Myanmar nationals when they tried to enter Bangladesh to flee the turmoil of their country where dozens of people were killed in a riot between Muslims and Buddhists.
The boarder guards are on high alert as Bangladesh government on Tuesday decided not to allow any refugee from Myanmar and asked the administration and law enforcement agencies to beef up vigilance and resist intrusion.
On the other hand, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in a briefing on the same day urged the government to allow the people seeking refuge in the country from sectarian clashes in the Rakhine state of Myanmar.
http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/latest_news.php?nid=38369
113 more refugees on 3 trawlers pushed back
Bangladesh border and coast guards pushed back three more trawlers with 113 people aboard on Wednesday afternoon as they entered Bangladesh through Cox's Bazar for refuge from sectarian violence in Rakhine state.
The first trawler carrying 30 Myanmar nationals was pushed back around 12:00pm, the second at about 5:00pm with 44 people and the last one at 5:30pm with 39 people on board, our Chittagong correspondent reports quoting Captain Kamrul Islam, operation officer of BGB 42 battalion.
Earlier on the same day, four trawlers and a boat carrying 124 Myanmar nationals were intercepted while entering Bangladesh illegally.
The BGB and coast guard personnel seized those starting from 12midnight till filing of this report at 9:00pm, the correspondent said quoting second-in-command of BGB 44 battalion Maj Shafiqur Rahman.
After seeing an empty boat floating in the Naf river in the midnight, Border Guard Bangladesh personnel went close to it and found a one and a half months old baby alone on the vessel.
It took two and a half hours to the BGB men to go close to the boat and rescue the baby, said Maj Md Saiful Wadud, operation officer of BGB, Teknaf said.
The team handed over the baby to one Kabir, a local people, for taking care of it, he said.
BGB seized a trawler carrying 44 Myanmarese near Gularchar of Teknaf around 4:00am while a patrol team of Bangladesh Coast Guard seized another trawler with 39 passengers at St Martin.
The border guards noticed one more trawler at the mouth of the Naf river and the Bay around 7:00am. They seized and brought the vessel, which was carrying 30 people, to a nearby jetty.
The guards with the help of local people provided the intruders with dry foods, water and saline.
BGB and coast guards on Monday pushed back 11 boats carrying around 500 Myanmar nationals when they tried to enter Bangladesh to flee the turmoil of their country where dozens of people were killed in a riot between Muslims and Buddhists.
The boarder guards are on high alert as Bangladesh government on Tuesday decided not to allow any refugee from Myanmar and asked the administration and law enforcement agencies to beef up vigilance and resist intrusion.
On the other hand, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in a briefing on the same day urged the government to allow the people seeking refuge in the country from sectarian clashes in the Rakhine state of Myanmar.
http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/latest_news.php?nid=38369