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Bangladesh: Rohingya camp leader ‘shot and hacked to death’ in Ukhiya

| @indiablooms | Mar 07, 2023, at 10:46 pm

Cox's Bazar: Dozens of people have shot and hacked to death a Rohingya leader in Cox's Bazar's Ukhiya region in Bangladesh, media reports said.

The incident occurred at Block-C/3 of Rohingya Camp No. 9 in Balukhali around 1 pm on Tuesday, Ukhiya Police Station chief Sheikh Mohammad Ali told bdnews24.

The victim has been identified as Md Noor Habi aka Doctor Wakkesh, 51, a resident of the block. He had been working as a Majhi (Rohingya camp leader) at Camp No. 9.

“Habi was sleeping at home when dozens of masked men took him outside at gunpoint and attacked him with a gun and sharp weapons. The criminals fled before the law enforcers arrived at the scene,” Ali said, citing locals.

The Armed Police Battalion and Ukhiya police took him to a local International Organisation of Migration (IOM) hospital.

The doctor present there declared him brough dead.

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