NDTV
Guwahati:
All India
Ratnadip Choudhury
December 24, 2020
All India
Ratnadip Choudhury
December 24, 2020
Six of the 13 Rohingya refugees arrested by Assam Police on Tuesday were children
Thirteen Rohingya refugees, including six children, have been arrested from Assam's Karimganj district - which borders Bangladesh - police sources told NDTV on Thursday, adding that all 13 were arrested for trying to illegally cross the international border.
The refugees, who were taken into custody on Tuesday, were picked up off a bus travelling from Agartala in Tripura to Guwahati in Assam. Sources said they were arrested from the Churaibari inter-state border. The arrested group includes four men and three women.