More Rohingyas are waiting to enter Bangladesh through Brahmanbaria’s Kasba border from India amid fears of deportation to Myanmar.
“As many as 31 Rohingya women, men and children have gathered on the border,” Major Md Shafiq of the Border Guards Bangladesh told reporters, according to bdnews24.com.
The BGB officer said a decision would be taken after a flag meeting with India’s border guards.
“The BGB members are on the high alert so that the BSF cannot push them into Bangladesh.”
Gopinathpur Union Parishad Chairman SM Mannan Jahangir of Kasba Upazila said India’s Border Security Force was trying to force the Rohingyas into Bangladesh since Friday night.
Of the 31 Rohingyas, six are women, eight men and 17 children. They assembled on the no-man’s land.
More than 1,300 Rohingyas entered Bangladesh from India in the past one and a half months, according to Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner Abul Kalam Azad.
The Rohingyas were sheltered at the transit camp set up by the UN refugee agency UNHCR near Kutupalong Refugee Camp in Cox’s Bazar.