4 Rohingyas detained at Dhaka airport

Four Rohingya people including three women were detained at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, Dhaka today while attempting to fly to Indonesia.

Tipped off, a team of Airport Police detained the four from the outdoor around 11:00am, Airport Police's Additional Superintendent Alamgir Hossian told The Daily Star.

Detainees Anwar, 30, Rokeya, 19, Marijan, 23, and Amena Begum, 26, were attempting to fly to Indonesia via Malaysia by a flight of a Malaysian Airlines at noon.

They are the residents of Maungdaw in Rakhine State of Myanmar but they were bearing Bangladeshi passports, the police official said.

Legal actions will be taken against them, he added.