No less than three kids were killed when a pontoon conveying Rohingyas from Myanmar upset in the Bay of Bengal in Sabrang zone of Tekhnaf on Thursday morning, as per UNB.
The watercraft with around 54 Rohingyas, who were escaping Myanmar to Bangladesh, sank at Khurermukh around 4:00am, said Tekhnaf police headquarters officer-in-control Moinuddin Ahmed.
In spite of the fact that 51 figured out how to swim shorewards, three youngsters disappeared, he said.
Afterward, local people recuperated collections of those three youngsters and covered them at a neighborhood burial ground, the OC included.
In the interim, somewhere in the range of 86 Rohingyas of 25 families, including the watercraft invert survivors, entered Bangladesh through various purposes of Sabrang on Thursday, said Md Delwar Hossain, a delegate of the locale organization at Sabrang help focus.
They were given haven and alleviation at Nayapara Rohingya camp, he included.
"We'd been carrying on with a hopeless life in bondage at our town without nourishment and treatment. Some of our relatives have as of now kicked the bucket. Along these lines, we fled from that point," said Salma Khatun, a Rohingya lady, reports UNB.