Another Rohingya leader shot dead

Another Rohingya leader was shot to death by miscreants at Kutupalong camp in Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar on Wednesday morning.

The deceased was identified as Syed Hossain, also known as Kala Bodda, a resident and head majhi of Ukhiya’s Kutupalong 2- east camp.

Syed Harunur Rashid, Armed Police Battalion’s deputy inspector general said, Syed Hossain was shot dead when he came out of his house in the morning.

Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army members might have shot him, he said.

The body was sent to the district sadar hospital after recovery, said the DIG.

‘Efforts are on to arrest those involved in the murder,’ he added.

According to media reports, on Tuesday, dozens of attackers shot and hacked a Rohingya community leader to death over a power struggle in Cox’s Bazar’s Ukhiya Upazila, according to police.

The incident occurred at Block-C/3 of Rohingya Camp No. 9 in Balukhali around 1 pm, said Ukhiya Police Station chief Sheikh Mohammad Ali.

The victim has been identified as Md Noor Habi aka Doctor Wakkesh, 51, a resident of the block. He had been working as a Majhi.

“Habi was sleeping at home when dozens of masked men took him outside at gunpoint and attacked him with a gun and sharp weapons. The criminals fled before the law enforcers arrived at the scene,” Ali said, citing locals.

The Armed Police Battalion and Ukhiya police rushed him to a local International Organisation of Migration (IOM) hospital, where a doctor declared him dead.