Life in limbo: Rohingya refugees travelling on a naval vessel to be relocated to the island of Bhasan Char, in Chattogram, Bangladesh. — AP
More than 1,400 Rohingya refugees set sail for a remote island in the Bay of Bengal, a Bangladesh navy official said, despite opposition from rights groups concerned about the site’s vulnerability to storms and flooding.
They bring to at least 6,700 the number of Rohingya refugees from neighbouring Myanmar that Bangladesh has sent to the island of Bhasan Char since early December, from border camps where a million live in ramshackle huts.
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