Miscreants allegedly abducted five Rohingya children from a park in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar on Monday.
The victims’ families alleged that the miscreants asked for Tk 20 lakh as ransom over mobile phones on Tuesday.
Md Jamal Pasha, superintendent of police (SP) at the 16-Armed Police Battalion (APBN), said the miscreants abducted the children while they were playing at Jadimudar’s Natural Park on the occasion of the Eid-ul-Fitr on Monday noon.
“Though the victims’ families didn’t inform us about the ransom, drives are going on to rescue the children,” he said.
Md Ekram, chairman of the Nayapara Registered Rohingya Camp Management Committee, said seven to eight miscreants wearing masks abducted the children from the park and took them to a hill.
The victims--Md Belal, 13, Nur Kamal, 12, Nur Arafat, 12, Osman, 14 and another Nur Kamal, 15, are residents of different blocks of the Rohingya camp.
