As many as 718 Rohingyas left Ukhiya camps in Cox’s Bazar on Sunday in the 10th phase of relocation on Bhasan Char island in Noakhali.
The Rohingya men, women and children left for Chattogram on 13 buses from the Ukhiya Degree College field at 1:00pm.
Shamsuddauja, additional refugee relief and repatriation commissioner in Cox's Bazar, said the Rohingyas are being relocated in the 10th phase and the process is on to send more who agreed to go to Bhasan Char.
They will reach the island by Monday noon, he added.
Jahirul Islam, camp-in-charge in Bhasan Char, said exact number of refugees to be relocated on the 10th phase is yet to be known.
“We’ve made preparations to send them to their respective centres after reaching here,” he said.
In nine phases, over 20,000 Rohingyas have been shifted to the island since December 2020.
Another batch of 306 Rohingyas were sent to Bhasan Char in May 2020, after rescuing them from the sea while illegally migrating to Malaysia, according to officials.
Bangladesh is currently hosting over 1.1 million Rohingyas in camps in Cox’s Bazar and Bhasan Char.
Most of them came since August 25, 2017, when the Myanmar military launched a brutal offensive targeting the Muslim ethnic minorities.
