Rohingya relocation: 1,716 refugees going to Bhasan Char in 6th phase

More Rohingyas are being relocated to Bhasan Char in the sixth phase.

On the second day of the sixth phase, more than 1,700 Rohingyas were taken to Chattogram from the camps in Cox's Bazar today.

Cox's Bazar Additional Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner Shamsuddauja Nayan said that 1,716 Rohingya men, women and children left for Chittagong on 25 buses in the morning and at noon.

Rohingyas willing to go to Bhasan Char were brought to the temporary transit point at Ukhiya Degree College ground and given necessary items including food, water and medicine.

They will be taken to Noakhali's Bhasan Char from Chattogram's Patenga under the Navy's management.

Earlier, on March 30, on the first day of the sixth phase, 2,495 Rohingyas reached Chattogram for Bhasan Char.

In five previous phases, over 14,000 Rohingyas were shifted to Bhasan Char from the camps in Cox's Bazar.