The United Nations said on Saturday that the total number of Rohingya refugees to have entered Bangladesh having fled the unrest in Myanmarhad now reached 409,000, a leap of 18,000 in a day.
"An estimated 409,000 Rohingya refugees have arrived in Bangladesh since August 25, fleeing violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state," Joseph Tripua, a UN refugee agency spokesman, told AFP.
Conditions are worsening in the border town of Cox's Bazar where the influx has added to pressures on Rohingya camps already overwhelmed with 300,000 people from earlier waves of refugees.
The UN said two children and a woman were killed in a "rampage" when a private group handed clothes near a camp on Friday.
Thursday, June 04, 2026
