4 bodies recovered after Rohingya boat capsizes off Teknaf, one BGB member missing

daily observer
Observer Online Report
Published : Sunday, 23 March, 2025  

Four bodies, including a child, were recovered from the Bay of Bengal in Teknaf after a boat carrying Rohingyas drowned while attempting to cross into Bangladesh from Myanmar.

There was also a Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) member on the boat.
 

Several people, including the BGB member, are still missing.

 

Gunfire from Myanmar echoes once again in Saint Martin's

DhakaTribune
Tribune Desk
Publish : 18 Dec 2024,

Residents reported intermittent gunfire from Wednesday morning until 1pm, with sporadic sounds continuing afterward

Photo: Collected

After the capture of Myanmar's Maungdaw city in Rakhine by the rebel group Arakan Army (AA), loud explosions were once again heard from the border areas, including Shapuree Dwip and Saint Martin's Island in Teknaf upazila, Cox's Bazar.

Residents reported intermittent gunfire from Wednesday morning until 1pm, with sporadic sounds continuing afterward.

ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နယ်စပ်အနီး လှေတိမ်းမှောက်မှု ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ၁၀ ဦးထက်မနည်း သေဆုံး

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာဌာန)
၀၇ ဩဂုတ်၊ ၂၀၂၄ 

လှေနစ်မြုပ်သွားပြီးနောက် ဆယ်ယူရရှိတဲ့သေဆုံးသူအနီးဆွေမျိုးများကိုတွေ့ရစဉ် (ဩဂုတ် ၆၊ ၂၀၂၄)

ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နဲ့ မြန်မာနယ်ခြား နတ်မြစ်ထဲမှာ ရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေ စီးနင်းလာတဲ့ လှေ နစ်မြုပ်တာကြောင့် ကလေးငယ်တွေအပါအဝင် လူ ၁၀ ဦးထက်မနည်း သေဆုံးသွားပါတယ်။ စစ်ပွဲတွေဖြစ်ပွားနေတဲ့ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံက ထွက်ပြေးလာတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ၂၉ ဦး စီးနင်း လိုက်ပါလာတဲ့ လှေ နစ်မြုပ်သွားတာလို့ ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ် Teknaf ဒေသ အုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီဝင် Rashid Mia က AFP သတင်းဌာနကို ပြောပါတယ်။

Bodies of 10 Rohingyas washed ashore in Teknaf

The Daily Star
Star Digital Report
Tue Aug 6, 2024 

At least 10 bodies washed ashore at a beach in Teknaf after a boat carrying Rohingyas from Myanmar capsized in the Bay of Bengal this (Tuesday) morning.

The victims include seven women, two men and a child, said locals.

Boat carrying Rohingyas runs aground in Teknaf

The Daily Star
Star Digital Report
Thu Nov 9, 2023 

Photo: Collected

A fishing trawler carrying Rohingya refugees, including women and children, ran aground at Moheshkhalia Para sea beach point in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar today, according to locals.

Fire at Teknaf Rohingya camp

Prothom Alo English Desk
Published: 25 Apr 2023,

A fire broke out at Rohingya camp no. 21 in Cox's Bazar’s Teknaf upazila on Monday nightUNB

A fire broke out at Rohingya camp no. 21 in Cox's Bazar’s Teknaf upazila on Monday night, reports UNB.

The fire broke out at Chakmarkhul-21 camp of Palongkhali union of Teknaf around 9:00 pm, police said.

Teknaf ရှိ ရိုဟင်ဂျာစခန်း အမှတ် ၂၂ တွင် သောက်သုံးရေ နှင့် နေ့စဉ် သောက်သုံးရေ ဆိုးရွားစွာ ပြတ်လပ်နေ

BD News
Nurul Karim Rasel
ဧပြီ ၁၈၊ ၂၀၂၂ 

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမှ ဒုက္ခသည်များအဖြစ် ရောက်ရှိလာသည့် တက္ကနတ်ရှိ ၂၂ ခုမြောက် ပူတီဗီးယားစခန်းရှိ ရိုဟင်ဂျာများ သည် ရေအကျပ်အတည်းကို ခံစားနေရသည်။ အမိုးအကာ(စခန်းများ)ရှိ ရေအကျပ်အတည်းသည် အထွတ်အ ထိပ် သို့ ရောက်ရှိနေပြီဖြစ်သည်။ စခန်းအတွင်း မျိုးတုံးပျောက်ကွယ်လုနီးပါးဖြစ်နေတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ၂၂,၀၀၀ ကျော် ဟာ လူမဆန်စွာနဲ့ နေထိုင်နေကြရပါတယ်။ စခန်းတစ်ခုလုံးရှိ ရိုဟင်ဂျာများသည် ရေအတွက် အော်ဟစ်နေ ကြ သည်။

3 brothers shot by Rohingyas in Teknaf, police say

The Daily Star
Star Digital Report
June 30, 2021

Three locals, brothers, were hospitalised after being shot and critically injured by a group of armed Rohingyas in Teknaf, Cox's Bazar, police said.

The injured are Rahmatullah (30), Salamatullah (22), and Mohammad Hossain (18) -- sons of Habibur Rahman.

The incident happened at Jadimura Rohingya Camp no. 27 near Nature Park area in Hnila union of Teknaf upazila at 3:30am today, reports our correspondent quoting police.

Six bodies of Rohingya found in Bangladesh’s river

Eastern Eyes
SwatiRana
14 June, 2021

THE Bangladeshi police has recovered six bodies of Rohingya including four children from the Naf River since Saturday (12).

On Monday (14) a Rohingya child and a woman were found dead on the riverbank at Hneela union of the upazila, said Teknaf Model police station officer-in-charge Md Hafizur Rahman.

The law enforcers suspect that the victims drowned after the boat, headed illegally for Bangladesh territory and with them on board, capsized in the river between Sunday evening and the early hours of Monday, the Dhaka Tribune reported.

People of Rakhine Community: Their numbers shrinking in Teknaf

The Daily Star
Sanjoy Kumar Barua
February 15, 2021

Threats of criminals, influentials blamed

Ma Ching Rakhine, along with her family members, was forced to leave their ancestral home in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar around 10 years ago in the face of threats from Rohingya criminals.

With a Rohingya refugee camp set up on their ancestral land in Dadundagya Rakhine Para, they are now living a tough life in Chowdhury Para Beri Badh area of Teknaf. They live in houses made of plastic sheets with no proper toilet facilities. They do not have safe drinking water either.

2 Rohingyas among 3 killed in Teknaf, Kushtia 'gunfights'

Dhaka Tribune
Abdul Aziz, Cox's Bazar, 
Al Mamun Sagor, Kushtia
September 13th, 2019

 Representational photo Bigstock

The incidents also left seven policemen injured

Three people, including two Rohingyas, have been killed in reported gunfights in Cox's Bazar and Kushtia districts.

The incidents happened early Friday.

In Cox's Bazar, two Rohingya men, suspected of being involved in the murder of Jubo League leader Omar Faruk, were killed in a reported gunfight with police in Teknaf upazila.

The deceased were identified as Abul Karim, 24, and Nesar Ahmed alias Nesar Dacoit, 29, of Nayapara Rohingya camp.

Pradip Kumar Das, officer-in-charge of Teknaf police station said: "Acting on a tip-off, we conducted a drive at Jadimura Hill area around midnight.

Six arrested with 85,000 yaba pills

The Daily Star  

Friday, "April 12, 2019"

Police in separate drives arrested six people including three Rohingyas and seized 85,000 yaba
tablets from their possession in Chattogram city on Wednesday night and yesterday morning.

The three Rohingyas were identified as Abu Taher, 22, Md Ismail, 28, and Md Mubarak, 27, hailing from
Teknaf Jadimura Rohingya Camp. They were arrested with 50,000 yaba tablets from Bridge Ghat area.
Acting on a tip-off, police conducted the drive around 10pm on Wednesday, said Md Mohsin,
officer-in-charge(OC) of Kotwali Police Station.

Other arrestees -- Md Mamun, 24, Jubaer, 18, and Abu Bakar Siddique, 20 -- are residents of the city's
Firingi Bazar area. They had 35,000 yaba tablets while they were going to Chattogram from Teknaf on
a microbus at 8am, said OC Mohsin.

“During primary interrogation, the arrestees admitted that they carried the yaba tablets from Teknaf to
sell those in Chattogram city and other parts of the country,” he added.

Link :https://www.thedailystar.net/city/news/six-arrested-85000-yaba-pills-1728583

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.

Rohingya woman among 3 'drug traders' killed in Teknaf 'gunfights'

Dhaka Tribune
Sunday, Mar 31, 2019
Abdul Aziz, Cox's Bazar 

Law enforcers recovered guns, 20,000 yaba pills, 18 cartridges, and three sharp weapons from the spots

Three suspected drug traders, including a Rohingya woman, have been killed in separate reported gunfights with police and Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) in Teknaf of Cox's Bazar.

Rohingya man's body found in Teknaf

Dhaka Tribune

Wednesday, Mar 27, 2019
Abdul Aziz, Coxs Bazar 

Map of Cox's Bazar Dhaka Tribune

The deceased had multiple bullet wounds

Police have recovered a bullet-ridden Rohingya man's body from Teknaf in Cox's Bazar.

The deceased has been identified as Md Sadek, 35, son of Md Jalil; both residents of the Nayapara Rohingya Camp's H block.

Rakhine investigation commission stays mostly silent.

MYANMARTIMES
NYAN LYNN AUNG | 20 MAR 2019

Rosario Manalo, chairperson of Myanmar’s Independent Commission of Enquiry for Rakhine, talks during a press briefing in Nay Pyi Taw last August. Photo - EPA

Little has been heard from the Independent Commission of Enquiry (ICOE) since it was set up last July to investigate allegations of human rights abuses by government forces in northern Rakhine State. The panel’s mandate ends in four months.

Police recover 2 Rohingya bodies from separate places in Teknaf

Dhaka Tribune
Abdul Aziz, Cox's Bazar
Published at 07:31 pm March 11th, 2019

They were recovered between Sunday night and Monday morning

Police have recovered the bodies of two Rohingyas from separate places in Teknaf.

The bodies were recovered between Sunday night and Monday morning. One of them, Nurul Kabir, 45, has been identified, but the other's identity is yet to be disclosed.

One Rohingya shot dead, another injured

NEWAGE

 Staff Correspondent | Published: 00:40, Feb 23,2019

Armed assailants shot dead one Rohingya paramedic and injured a computer operator at Muchuni camp of Teknaf upazila in Cox’s Bazar on Friday evening apparently for sharing information about Ansar camp looting suspect Nurul Alam who was killed in a ‘gunfight’ with Rapid Action Battalion earlier in the day.

The police discovered the body of Rohingya paramedic Mohamed Hamid, 41, in the forest of the nearby hilly area hours after the sympathisers of Nurul Alam kidnapped him and shot at computer operator Hasan Ali at Muchuni camp of Nayapara at around 7:00pm.

Goons kill Rohingya refugee in Teknaf

NEWAGE

Our Correspondent . Cox's Bazar | Published: 13:13, Feb 23,2019

A Rohingya refugee was shot dead by Rohingya goons at Nayapara Salban in Teknaf of Cox’s Bazar on Friday night.

The deceased was identified as Mohammad Hamid alias Hamid Daktar, 41, son of Mohammad Hossen of Nayapara Salban camp in Teknaf.

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ႏိုင္ငံမွာ မူးယစ္ကုန္ကူးသူ ၁၀၂ ဦး ကုိယ္ တိုင္အဖမ္းခံ

VOA
ဗြီအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)
16 ေဖေဖာ္၀ါရီ၊ 2019

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ နယ္ျခားေစာင့္ တပ္ဖြ႔ဲဝင္ (BGB) တဦးက ဘတ္စ္ကားစီးခရီးသည္ဆီက ဖမ္းမိတဲ့ "yaba" စိတ္ႂကြေဆး ေတြ Teknaf မွာ ဖမ္းမိစဥ္။ (ဧၿပီ ၆၊ ၂၀၁၉)

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအေနာက္ဘက္ အိမ္နီးခ်င္း Bangladesh ႏိုင္ငံမွာ စိတ္ႂကြေစ်းေရာင္းဝယ္ေဖာက္ကားသူ ၁၀၂ ဦး အစိုးရဆီမွာ လာၿပီးအဖမ္းခံခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ဖိလစ္ပိုင္ႏိုင္ငံကလို ဖမ္းမိရင္ သတ္ခံရႏိုင္တဲ့ မူးယစ္ေဆးစစ္ ဆင္ေရးမ်ဳိး လုပ္မွာ ေၾကာက္လို႔ သက္ဆိုင္ရာနဲ႔ ႀကဳိညႇိႏႈိင္းၿပီး ဒီကေန႔ လာၿပီး လက္နက္ခ်ၾကတာျဖစ္ တယ္ လို႔ အရာရွိေတြ က ေျပာပါတယ္။ Bangladesh ႏိုင္ငံမွာက ယာဘစိတ္ႂကြေဆးသံုးစြဲမႈ တိုးလာၿပီးတဲ့ေနာက္ အစိုးရက အခုလို မူးယစ္ေဆးႏိုမ္နင္းမႈ စစ္ဆင္ေရး ျပဳလုပ္တာပါ။