Bangladesh treated 2,300 seriously hurt Rohingya


Rohingya women and children at a camp in Bangladesh. More than 200 Rohingya women have given birth since arriving in Bangladesh camps. – EPA pic, September 21, 2017.

BANGLADESH said today it had treated more than 2,350 Rohingya refugees for serious injuries sustained during ethnic violence in Myanmar, including bullet and machete wounds and trauma from landmines.

About 422,000 refugees from the stateless Muslim minority have fled Myanmar’s westernmost Rakhine State since August 25, overwhelming camps along the border ill-prepared for an influx of desperate civilians.


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