At least seven people were killed and several others injured in an attack on a madrasa in a Rohingya camp in Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar in the early hours of Friday.
Confirming the news of deaths, Superintendent of Police Shihab Kaiser Khan, also commander of Armed Police Battalion-8, said the incident took place around 4:00am at Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama Al-Islamiyah of Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals (FDMN).
A gang of Rohingya assailants attacked the madrasa, located at Balukhali Rohingya camp-18, leaving four people dead on the spot and several others injured, he said.
Being informed, the law enforcers from Moynarghona police camp-12 rushed to the spot and sent the injured to the local camp hospital.
Three more Rohingyas died while undergoing treatment there, the SP added.
The deceased were identified as Azizul Haq, 22, Ibrahim, 17, Md Amin, 30, Md Idris, 32, Nur Alim, 45, Hamidullah, 50, and Nur Kayser, 15, all residents of Balukhali Rohingya camp.
Police detained one of the attackers, identified as Mujib, along with a locally made gun, six bullets, and a knife, he added.
The fresh incident took place just three weeks after unknown assailants gunned down Rohingya leader Mohibullah, head of Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights (ARSPH), at his office at Kutupalang camp in Ukhiya on September 29.
More than a million Rohingya live in Bangladesh after fleeing Myanmar, the vast majority in 2017 after a military crackdown that included mass killings and gang rapes and which the United Nations said was carried out with genocidal intent.
Myanmar denies genocide, saying it was conducting a legitimate campaign against insurgents who attacked police posts.
