As many as 257 Rohingyas left camps in Cox’s Bazar on Wednesday morning as part of the relocation process to Bhasan Char in Noakhali.
Seven buses carrying the Myanmar nationals left for Chattogram around 11:00am from the ground of Ukhiya Degree College in Cox’s Bazar, confirmed Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commission (RRRC) Additional Commissioner Mohammad Shamsud Douza.
They would board Bangladesh Navy ships bound for the island in the Bay of Bengal on Thursday, he added.
Officials said after their arrival in Chattogram, the Rohingyas would be kept at a transit camp set up on the premises of BAF Shaheen College in Patenga.
Arrangement of medical check-up and food have been made there as well, they said.
On October 9, the government and the United Nations signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a common protection and policy framework for a humanitarian response to the Rohingyas living in Bhasan Char.
Bangladesh Navy has implemented the Ashryan-3 project on Bhasan Char at a cost of Tk 3,100 crore for accommodating 1,00,000 Rohingyas.
As many as 18,000 Rohingyas have been relocated to the island from Cox’s Bazar.
Since August 25 in 2017, Bangladesh has been hosting over 1.1 million forcefully displaced Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar.
Most of them arrived there after a military crackdown by Myanmar, which the UN called a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing” and other rights groups dubbed “genocide”.
