Images have surfaced of crowds in makeshift shelters on the shores south of Maungdaw in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state.
SHAH PORIR DWIP, Bangladesh – Thousands of desperate Rohingya are waiting on the Myanmar coast to cross the Naf River to Bangladesh, say refugees who arrived by boat in recent days.įor weeks, rumours have abounded of a potential refugee influx by sea in the southern Bangladesh town of Shah Porir Dwip. Rohingya refugees fleeing Myanmar arrive by wooden boats under the cover of darkness on the beach of Shah Porir Dwip, near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
