Omar Faruk murder: 2 Rohingyas killed in Cox’s Bazar 'gunfight'

The Daily Star  

Star Online Report
August 24, 2019

Two Rohingya people, also accused of Jubo League leader Omar Faruk murder case, are killed in a reported gunfight with police in Cox’s Bazar on August 24, 2019. This is an undated photo of Jubo League leader Omar Faruk. Photo: Collected

Two Rohingya people, also accused of Jubo League leader Omar Faruk murder case, were killed in a reported gunfight with police in Cox’s Bazar early today.

Deceased Muhammad Shah and Abdu Shukkur were residents of Zadimura Rohingya refugee camp at Hnila union of the district’s Teknaf upazila, our Cox's Bazar correspondent reports.

Rescue worker killed in attack on ambulance in northern Myanmar - army

Reuters

World News

August 17, 2019
Shoon Naing

YANGON (Reuters) - One rescue worker was killed and several others were wounded when an ambulance came under fire in northern Myanmar amid clashes between troops and ethnic rebels in the region, an army spokesman and a witness said on Saturday.

The rescue workers were 13 miles from Lashio, the largest town in Shan State, where ethnic armed groups have been fighting for greater autonomy from the central government, when their convoy came under attack.

Three Rohingyas among 4 killed in Teknaf ‘gunfights’

NEWAGE

Our Correspondent . Cox’s bazar
Aug 03,2019

Three suspected robbers and one drug peddler were killed in reported gunfights with police at Noorullah hill and Dogharchara point on Cox’s Bazar-Teknaf Marine Drive in Teknaf of Cox’s Bazar early Saturday.

Three among the dead were — Rohingyas Mohammad Jonyed, Ayoub Ali and Mohadi, members of of Rohingya gang led by Abdul Hakim. The other one was Imran Mollah, son of late Jahirul Islam of Kalkini in Madaripour.

Army Officer, 2 Navy Personnel Killed in AA Rocket Attack in Rakhine

The Irrawaddy
By Moe Myint
22 July 2019

A Myanmar Navy frigate, F-23, docks at the Danyawaddy Naval Base in southern Rakhine's Kyaukphyu Township. / Moe Myint / The Irrawaddy

YANGON—An army captain and two naval personnel based in southern Rakhine State’s Kyaukphyu Township were killed when the Arakan Army (AA) launched rocket attacks on two naval vessels on a river in Myebon Township last Friday.

A staff member from Kyaukphyu General Hospital confirmed to The Irrawaddy on Monday that three bodies arrived for postmortems on Saturday. According to the staff member, the bodies were identified as those of an army captain from Kyaukphyu-based Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) No. 543 and two personnel from Danyawaddy Naval Base, situated 4 kilometers east of downtown Kyaukphyu. Some Kyaukphyu locals said that the army officer was identified as Captain Soe Htet Aung.

Flash Floods Kill Two, Intensify Suffering in Rohingya Camps

The Irrawaddy

By Muktadir Rashid
10 July 2019
Rohingya refugees walk along a road at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh on March 6, 2019. / Reuters

DHAKA—Flash floods and monsoon rains have intensified the suffering of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas living in refugee camps in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar, displacing 2,700, damaging 3,400 homes and killing at least two, according to NGOs working in the area.

The Bangladesh government and local and international agencies are keeping volunteers on standby, fearing landslides in the densely populated neighborhoods.

Local authorities so far have recorded two deaths, including one child, during the ongoing monsoon rains.

Bangladesh police kill three suspected Rohingya traffickers; rescue 15 refugees

REUTERS

World News

June 25, 2019

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - Bangladesh police killed three people suspected of trying to smuggle 15 Rohingya Muslim refugees to Malaysia in a clash on Tuesday near the South Asian nation’s main refugee camp, an official said, the second such incident in as many months.

Bomb blast in Maungdaw kills police and leaves three injured

Bni
Thursday, June 06, 2019
Development Media Group

                              

The accidental explosion of a bomb that occurred near the Taung Pyo (Right) bridge, killed police and left three others injured, an official from No. (1) Border Guard Force said.

Seven killed in Myanmar monastery shelling: witnesses

mizzima
By AFP
05 June 2019

Myanmar soldiers stand guard in Maungdaw. Photo: AFP

Seven people were killed when artillery rounds slammed into a monastery where they were sheltering from firefights between military and the Arakan Army (AA) in Myanmar's Rakhine state, witnesses said Tuesday.

Rohingya Man, 8-Year-Old Son Killed in Blast in Northern Rakhine

The Irrawaddy 

  By Moe Myint 

22 May 2019

YANGON—An explosion killed a Rohingya boy and his father and severely wounded another adult in northern Rakhine State’s Kyauktaw Township on Tuesday, according to a village official.

The victims were identified as Mohamad Shofi, 38, his son Husson, 8, and Mohammad Shazam, an adult of unknown age, according to Ah Lel Kyun village administrative official U Win Hla Tun. Mohammad Shazam was transported to Sittwe Hospital for medical treatment this morning, U Win Hla Tun said.

Two Muslims killed and one injured from artillery shell

BNI Multi Media Group

Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Development Media Group

 

An artillery shell landed on a Muslim house in Alae Kyun village, Kyauktaw Township on May 21, it killed two people and injured one.

Chawbi, 38, and his eight years old son Sayrahman, died while another person identified as Mahmat Afan was injured after the shell landed on Tuesday afternoon.

“They said that something landed on the house. It looked like the shell casing of a heavy weapon. They do not know where it came from,” said U Win Hla Tun, administrator of Alae Kyun village.

Bawdi Lar Laung, one of the leaders in the village, said that the bodies were buried in the cemetery and he was not aware about details of the incident.

The DMG also tried to contact to U Kyaw Hla, another household head, to know about the incident, but could not be reached for comment.

 

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Artillery kills 2 Muslim villagers in Myanmar's Rakhine

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Kyaw Ye Lynn | YANGON

22.05.2019

Another person also injured when artillery shell hit home in Muslim-majority Alekyun village, says police officer 

A Muslim man and his 8-year old son was killed by artillery that villagers believed was fired by Myanmar military in the country’s Rakhine state.

Local police officer confirmed that an artillery shell hit a home in Muslim-majority Alekyun village in Kyauk Taw Township on Tuesday, killing two Muslim villagers and wounding another.

Five killed in ‘gunfights’

NEWAGE
Staff Correspondent |
Published:May 06,2019

Five people were killed in two gunfights on Monday, three in the Sunderbans and two Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar.

Three suspected forest-area robbers were killed in a gunfight with Rapid Action Battalion members at Kodailya canal under Chandpai Range of the Sunderbans under Mongla upazila in Bagerhat while two suspected Rohingya drug peddlers were killed in a gunfight with police in Jadimara Rohingya camp area under Teknaf upazila in Cox’s Bazar, RAB and police officials said.

Rakhine widow says 'husband was killed for no reason'

DNA
Written By
PTI Updated: May 3, 2019,

Escalating violence between the military and the Arakan Army (AA) - who are battling for more autonomy for the state's ethnic Rakhine Buddhist community - has forced more than 30,000 people from their homes in the area in recent months.

 

Photo: PTI

The widow of a man shot dead in military custody in Myanmar's Rakhine state said her husband died "for no reason", speaking after the army killed six men on suspicion of being rebels in the restive region.

Myanmar army says it killed six unarmed prisoners

B B C
03 May 2019

Myanmar's army has said it shot dead at least six people detained in a village school in Rakhine state.

A spokesman confirmed troops fired on unarmed detainees saying they had tried to grab the soldiers' weapons.

The detained were being questions for links to the rebels of the Arakan Army, who are ethnic Rakhine Buddhists.

Myanmar troops kill 6, detain scores in Rakhine over suspected rebel links-military spokesman

REUTERS
by Reuters
Thursday, 2 May 2019

Since November, the fighting has displaced nearly 33,000 people across a large part of central and northern Rakhine and part of neighbouring Chin state

(Adds comment from ICRC)

YANGON, May 2 (Reuters) - Myanmar security forces shot dead at least six people in the troubled western state of Rakhine on Thursday, after soldiers and police detained hundreds of people at a school, a military spokesman said.

2 Rohingyas among 3 killed in Cox’s Bazar ‘gunfights’

Dhaka Tribune
Tuesday, Apr 23, 2019
Abdul Aziz, Coxs Bazar 

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BGB says the Rohingyas were in possession of 20,000 yaba pills and two sharp weapons
Three suspected drug dealers, including two Rohingya youths, have been shot dead in separate so-called gunfights with Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Cox’s Bazar.

UN: Recent Myanmar army attack may have killed dozens of Rohingya

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ByAgencies
-April 9, 2019

 

The United Nations’ human rights office has said it fears that dozens of Rohingya civilians may have been killed in a military attack in Myanmar’s Rakhine state last week, despite official government tolls putting the number of dead at six.

UN: Recent Myanmar army attack may have killed dozens of Rohingya

Aljazeera
April 9'2019

UN says it has unconfirmed reports suggesting that as many as 30 people may have been killed in Rakhine state attack.

 The western state was at the epicentre of a brutal crackdown by Myanmar's security forces in 2017 [File: Min Kyi Thein/AP]

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has said it fears that dozens of Rohingya civilians may have been killed in a military attack in Myanmar's Rakhine state last week, despite official government tolls putting the number of dead at six.

U.N. fears as many as 30 Rohingya killed in Myanmar assault

UPI

By Clyde Hughes

April 9, 2019  

Hundreds of Rohingya enter Bangladesh from Budichong, Myanmar, in 2017. File Photo by Abir Abdullah/EPA-EFE

April 9 (UPI) -- A deadly aerial assault against Rohingya Muslims last week appears to have killed many more than the Myanmar government reported, the United Nations human rights office said Tuesday.

The helicopter attack by the Myanmar military killed many Rohingya in Rakhine State. The government said six people died, but the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said as many as 30 were killed.

Myanmar says six Rohingya killed in attack were 'with insurgents'

Frontier
MYANMAR
Monday, April 08, 2019
By AFP

A Myanmar border guard policeman stands near a group of Rohingya Muslims in front of their homes during a government-organised visit for journalists to Buthidaung Township in January. (AFP)

  
YANGON — The Myanmar army said Friday that six Rohingya killed by helicopter gunfire in restive Rakhine state were working with a rebel group, the latest escalation in violence that the UN says "may constitute war crimes".

Ethnic and religious tensions divide western Rakhine State, where the army forced out some 740,000 Rohingya Muslims in 2017 in a brutal crackdown.