Bodies of 15 Rohingya from sunken boat found near coast of Rakhine’s Sittwe

mizzima
10 August 2023

Fifteen bodies of Rohingya people were found after their boat sank near Rakhine’s capital city Sittwe on 7 August.

The boat sunk near Basara Village as it was carrying at least 50 Rohingya apparently heading for Malaysia.

17 dead after Rohingya boat from Myanmar capsizes on the way to Malaysia

CNN
By Su Chay, Heather Chen and Mihir Melwani, CNN
Thu August 10, 2023

CNN- Rescue teams have found at least 17 bodies on Myanmar’s shores after a Rohingya boat capsized while on its way to Malaysia on Monday, officials told CNN.

Among the dead were 10 women and seven men – all of whom were Rohingya Muslims, said Bya Latt, a spokesperson for the Shwe Yaung Matta Foundation rescue group.

Children among dead as stranded Rohingya face starvation at sea, families say

CNN
By Rhea Mogul, CNN
Wed December 21, 2022 

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A Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on August 24, 2022.

Many Rohingya are feared dead at sea more than three weeks after their boat became stranded off the Indian coast, where at least 160 people remain aboard on the brink of starvation, family members and the United Nations’ refugee agency said.
 

Mohammed Rezuwan Khan, whose sister and 5-year-old niece are on the vessel, told CNN Wednesday that two children and a woman had died, adding that those still alive have “no water, food or medicine.”
 

“We are extremely concerned and want them to be rescued. It’s growing increasingly difficult for them to survive,” said Khan, adding that he last spoke to the boat’s captain on Sunday.

 

13 dead Rohingya found by side of road in Yangon Region’s Hlegu Township

mizzima
07 December 2022

Residents from Ngwenanthar Village in Yangon Region’s Hlegu Township, about 25km north of Yangon City centre, discovered the bodies of 13 Rohingya men by the side of the Tabinshwehti Road at about 7:00 a.m. on 5 December.

The Ngwenanthar Village administrator reported the find to the authorities and locally based police officers went to inspect the scene and investigate.

Seven Rohingya dead after boat seized, Myanmar authorities say

THE STRAITSTIMES

Sep 2, 2022, 

 Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims fled a military crackdown in Buddhist-majority Maynmar in 2017. PHOTO: EPA-EFE

 

YANGON - Seven Rohingya people from a group of 65 seized by the Myanmar authorities from a boat off the southern coast died of hunger, thirst and exposure, state media said on Friday.

On Monday, the authorities detained a vessel near Pyapon township, around 120km south of commercial hub Yangon, said the Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper.

"Four traffickers and 65 smuggled Bengalis were temporarily detained," it said, using the term by which Rohingya are pejoratively referred to by many in Myanmar.

Three men and four women later "died due to the bad weather and lack of food and water".

Covid-19: 10 Rohingyas dead, 507 infected since last year

The Daily Star
Star Digital Report

April 20, 2021

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A total of 507 Rohingya refugees were infected with Covid-19 in the camps of Cox's Bazar since the coronavirus outbreak started March last year.

Dr Md Mahbubur Rahman, civil surgeon of Cox's Bazar, confirmed the information to our Cox's Bazar staff correspondent.

Of the 507 infected Rohingyas, 10 died from Covid-19, the doctor said.

Currently, nearly 8,88,457 Rohingyas are living in 34 refugee camps in Ukhia and Teknaf upazilas of Cox's Bazar, added our correspondent.

According to the Cox's Bazar Civil Surgeon's office, a total of 7,590 people were infected with coronavirus in Cox's Bazar district till yesterday since March last year and 89 people died. Among them, 507 are Rohingya refugees and the remaining are local residents of Cox's Baza.

Myanmar: 38 Died on Deadliest Day Yet for Military Coup Opposition, Says UN

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Agency News PTI

Mar 04, 2021

Myanmar security forces were seen firing slingshots at protesters, chasing them down and even brutally beating an ambulance crew in video showing a dramatic escalation of violence against opponents of last month's military coup.

Yangon, March 4: Myanmar security forces were seen firing slingshots at protesters, chasing them down and even brutally beating an ambulance crew in video showing a dramatic escalation of violence against opponents of last month's military coup.

A UN official speaking from Switzerland said 38 people had been killed Wednesday, a figure consistent with other reports though accounts are difficult to confirm inside the country. The increasingly deadly violence could galvanise the international community, which has responded fitfully so far. 

Myanmar Shuts Down All Passenger Flights in Country Amid Political Crisis. 

“Today it was the bloodiest day since the coup happened on February 1. We have today — only today — 38 people died. We have now more than over 50 people died since the coup started" and more have been wounded, the U.N. special envoy for Myanmar, Christine Schraner Burgener, told reporters at UN headquarters on Wednesday. 

Rohingya overloaded boat sinks: 14 dead and over 40 missing

AsiaNews.it
02/11/2020

The rescue teams rescued 70 people. The fishing vessel the were onboard traveled with a boat of which there are no traces. The victims were fleeing the overcrowded camps of Cox’s Bazar. Border guard commander: "The Rohingya lured by traffickers". Since last year, authorities have stopped the departure of over 500 refugees. 

Cox’s Bazar (AsiaNews / Agencies) - At least 14 people drowned this morning and more than 40 are missing following the sinking of a boat carrying Rohingya refugees off the southern coast of Bangladesh. About 130 people were massed on the fishing boat, which tried to cross the Gulf of Bengal to Malaysia. This was reported by the spokesman for the Bangladeshi coast guard, Hamidul Islam. So far, rescue teams have pulled 70 people to safety.

AA Abducts Five Chin Ethnic Villagers, Leaving Death Threats to the Rest (Chin World)

BNI Multi Media Group
Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Chin World

 

The Arakan Army (AA) abducted five Chin Ethnic villagers in Rakhine State’s Minbya Township on May 15 and dissuaded the remaining villagers with death threats from notifying the incident to authority and media, a villager told Chin World Media.

AA member shot dead in Kyauktaw

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Published 11 May 2019

A member of Arakan Army (AA) who blew off a military column shouldering security duties along Yangon-Sittway Union Road was shot dead, the Office of the Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services reported on May 10.

On May 10 morning, an AA group carried out two remote-control mine attacks on the military column working at about 3,000 metres away from Kyauktaw, Rakhine State. While clearing mines in the area, security troops shot an AA member dead and seized a motorcycle, a grenade, two mobile phones and accessories for planting mines, according to the press release.

Army Shoots Motorcycle Driver Dead in N. Rakhine

The Irrawaddy
By Moe Myint
10 May 2019

The body of motorcycle ferry driver Ko Maung Maung Hla, who was found dead in a rural area of northern Rakhine State's Kyauktaw Township early on Friday morning.  / Kyaw Hla Myint / Facebook 

 
YANGON—A motorcycle ferry operator was shot dead while driving home to his village in northern Rakhine State’s Kyauktaw Township early Friday morning, according to local residents.

The victim was identified as Ko Maung Maung Hla, 36, from Phayar Paung village 4 miles south of downtown Kyauktaw. Village administrator U Aung Tin Win, who went to see the body at Kyauktaw General Hospital on Friday morning, told The Irrawaddy that Ko Maung Maung Hla worked as a ferry operator. He had a 9-year-old son with his wife, Daw Hla Win, who sells vegetables in a market.

Rohingya leader dies from gunshot wounds in hospital

Dhaka Tribune  

Abdul Aziz, Cox’s Bazar
Published at 11:26 pm March 30th, 2019 

Abdul Matlab Collected

A Rohingya camp chairman Abdul Matlab died at a hospital in Narayanganj on March 30 who was bullet shot by some miscreants on March 24 in his own locality

Abdul Matlab, a Rohingya camp chairman who was shot by miscreants at Leda Rohingya camp in Teknaf on March 24, died in a hospital under treatment on Saturday.

Two Villagers Shot Dead in Latest Fighting in Myanmar’s Rakhine State

RADIO FREE ASIA

2019-03-29

A Myanmar villager is rushed to the hospital after being wounded by gunfire in Outthagan village, Mrauk-U township, western Myanmar's Rakhine state, March 29, 2019.
Photo courtesy of the Mrauk-U Ga Yunar Hlaing blood donors group

An armed clash between Myanmar soldiers and rebel Arakan Army (AA) fighters in a village in Mrauk-U township in western Myanmar’s violence-ridden Rakhine state on Friday left two villagers dead and seven others injured, local residents and a Rakhine lawmaker said.

Rohingya man found dead in Cox’s Bazar

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Prothom Alo English Desk | Update: 00:12, Mar 03, 2019
 

Police recovered the body of a young man of Rohingya community from a septic tank at Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia upazila in Cox's Bazar on Saturday, reports UNB.

The deceased was Shafiqul Islam, 26, son of Lokman Hakim of block-1 of the refugee camp.

Nurul Islam Mazumdar, officer-in-charge (investigation) of Ukhia police station, said Shafiqul was missing since Thursday. His elder brother filed an abduction case with the police station.