According to official statements, a Rohingya woman was killed at a refugee camp in Bangladesh’s southeastern Cox’s Bazar district, taking the killings to 24 in 2023.
A police official at Cox’s Bazar said that two other women, a community leader and her daughter were also wounded by the shooting led by a group of 15 bandits attacked their house
More than 1.2 million Rohingya Muslims displaced from Myanmar live in 33 congested refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, with another 30,000 relocated to Bhasan Char, an island in the Bay of Bengal.