14 Rohingyas, 2 suspected traffickers held

NEWAGE

Staff Correspondent . Sylhet 

Dec 07,2020

The Rapid Action Battalion detained 14 Rohingya people, including three women and eight children, and arrested two suspected human traffickers at Dakshin Surma in Sylhet on Sunday morning.

The detained Rohingya are Zahura Begum, 30, Nur Ayesha Begum, 35, Khoshnama Begum, 18, Abdur Rahman, 29, M Siraj, 20, Jubayer Ahmad Sayed, 20, Syed Noor, 16, M Idris, 12, M Junaid, 10, M Yunus, 8, M Mustafa, 4, Mustafizur Rahman, 11, Saidur Rahman, 9, and Azizur Rahman, 4, said the battalion.

The suspected traffickers are M Selim Ahmed, 23, and M Sadek, 22, said the battalion 9 operation commander Kamruzzaman.

Acting on a tip-off, a team of the battalion members detained the Rohingya people and arrested the suspected traffickers at Humayun Rashid Square at Dakshin Surma in the city at about 6:30am, said the officer.

He said that the Rohingya people had come to Sylhet from the Rohingya refugee camp of Ukhiya at Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar.

‘They wanted to go out of the country forging false documents in Sylhet. We seized forged documents, including fake National Identification Cards in their possessions,’ said Kamruzzaman.

The Rohingya people will be sent back to their camp and the human traffickers will be handed over to the local police station after the filing of a case, the officer added.

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