Around 200 Rohingya Muslims fleeing a surge in violence in Rakhine State are stranded at the Bangladesh border, community leaders said Tuesday.
Bangladeshi border guards pushed back the Rohingya — mostly women and children — to the Myanmar side on Monday, community leaders told AFP.
"We heard they are 200 in number. They are mostly women and children who were only seeking a safe place to stay. They have no homes to go back," one of the Rohingya leaders told AFP from a refugee camp in Bangladesh's Teknaf border town.
A border guard spokesman put the figure at closer to 80. (Courtesy of frontiermyanmar.net)
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