Police have detained eight people over an attack of a madrasa in a Rohingya camp that left six people dead in Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar early Friday.
Superintendent of Police Shihab Kaiser Khan, also commander of Armed Police Battalion-8, said the APBn personnel apprehended them on Friday night conducting drives at Rohingya camps.
Identities of the detainees could not be known immediately.
Meanwhile, the death toll in the incident was revised down to six although SP Shihab confirmed seven fatalities on Friday.
“Six bodies were handed over to their families after autopsy,” he added.
A gang of assailant attacked Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama Al-Islamiyah of Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals (FDMN) at Balukhali Rohingya camp around 4:00am on Friday, leaving four people dead on the spot and several others injured, said the police official.
The injured were sent to a local camp hospital where two others died while undergoing treatment.
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.
