Lagatar24 Desk
Balukhali, Oct 22: Several gunmen attacked a seminary in a Rohingya refugee camp on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border on Friday, killing at least seven people and injuring others.
According to a regional police chief, the attackers shot some victims and stabbed others with knives.
After a Rohingya community leader was shot dead outside his office three weeks ago, tensions have risen in the camps that house more than 900,000 Myanmar refugees.
In the incident today, four people were murdered instantly, and three more died later at a hospital in the Balukhali camp. The number of people injured was not disclosed by the police.
Shihab Kaisar Khan, regional chief of an armed police battalion, told reporters, “We caught one attacker shortly after the incident.”
According to him, the individual was discovered carrying a gun, six rounds of ammunition, and a knife.
Since the assassination of rights advocate Mohib Ullah by unknown assailants, many Rohingya activists have gone into hiding.
The death has been blamed on the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) by some activists. ARSA is the insurgent group responsible for the 2017 attacks on Myanmar security forces, which sparked a military crackdown and a 740,000-strong Rohingya migration to Bangladesh.
The armed group has disputed the charges.
According to activists, there is an increasing “environment of fear” in the camps. Security has been reinforced, according to police, while they examine the circumstances of the new shooting.
