Rohingya 'shot in Myanmar' dies in Teknaf

A Rohingya man who entered Bangladesh from Myanmar with bullet injuries died yesterday in the unregistered Leda Rohingya camp in the district's Teknaf upazila. The man was allegedly shot by Myanmar army on Sunday. 

The victim is Shah Alam, 47, of Mangala village in Myanmar's Mongdhu.

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Talking to journalists, his sister Fatema Begum, 40, said a group of armed Rakhine youths and Myanmar army surrounded their Mangala village around 6:00pm on Sunday and asked the people who were at home at that time to come out of their homes.

The army personnel shot her brother Alam after she and her brother had come out of their house. With bullet wounds, her brother was heading towards a nearby forest to take shelter there, but fell on the ground on the way. She also followed her brother, Fatema said.

When the attackers left the village, she and her brother reached near the Naf river with the help of some villagers to enter Bangladesh.

At the dead of night, they along with two others crossed the river by a boat and entered Bangladesh through Damdamia point of Teknaf's Hnila.

They later took shelter at the shanty of her sister Romita Begum, 35, who has been living in the Leda unregistered Rohingya camp for eight years, said Fatema.

Amir Hossain, general secretary of the camp management committee, said Alam came to the camp in a very critical condition yesterday morning and he died there later.

Sheikh Ashrafuzzaman, inspector (investigation) of Teknaf Police Station, said police recovered the body and sent it to Cox's Bazar Sadar Hospital morgue for an autopsy.