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| Bangladesh rescues 23 Rohingya girls from traffickers |
| 2019-05-13 |
| [DAWN] Twenty-three teenage Rohingya girls were rescued after being brought from refugee camps to the capital Dhaka to be sent to Malaysia by air, Bangladesh police said on Sunday. Dhaka police also jugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! four human traffickers including a Rohingya couple and recovered over 50 Bangladeshi passports from them on Saturday. Police front man Mokhlesur Rahman said they raided a residence in the northern part of the city and found the teenagers hiding in a room behind a tailoring shop. "They were promised jobs in Malaysia and brought from refugee camps in Cox's Bazar," he told AFP, referring to the Rohingya settlements in Bangladesh's southeastern coastal district. The girls ‐ aged between 15 and 19 ‐ could have been potential victims of forced prostitution, the official said. "We have filed cases against the four arrested persons and sent the girls back to their camps in Cox's Bazar," Rahman said. Abul Khair, local police chief of Ukhiya, where Kutupalong, the largest refugee camp in the world, is situated, said he received the girls and would send them to their homes in the camps. |
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