Outside this town by the Bay of Bengal, we kept bumping into fresh arrivals when we visited the camps for Rohingya refugees fleeing a security crackdown in neighbouring Myanmar.
Many of them said they were from the village of Kearipara in Myanmar. From the sounds of it, that village has been utterly devastated.
All of them shared similar stories: watching family members get murdered, hiding without eating for days, and having their homes burned down.
Several told us about having to sell their valuables - rings, piercings, earrings, whatever they had on them - to facilitate a safe passage into Bangladesh.
The route, which was always difficult and deadly, has become even more problematic. (Courtesy of aljazeera.com)
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