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Boat capsize: 12 Rohingyas dead, 20 missing

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Published: 03:59, 9 October 2017   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
Boat capsize: 12 Rohingyas dead, 20 missing

Cox's Bazaar Correspondent: At least 12 people died and 20 others were missing after a boat packed with Rohingya refugees - many of them children -capsized in the latest tragedy to strike those fleeing violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state.

The boat capsized at Gholarchar point of Shah Porir Dweep of the district's Teknaf in Naf river around 11:00pm on Sunday.

Earlier, 20 Rohingyas died after a boat capsized near Inani sea beach at Ukhia in the district on September 28.

Afruzul Hauqe Tutul, Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) in Cox's Bazaar, confirmed the news.

He said a team of police was sent to the spot. a total of 12 bodies of Rohingya people were recovered till Sunday night.


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