August 31, 2017 12:42 PM

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Bodies wash up as boat carrying Rohingya fleeing Myanmar capsizes

Bangladesh's border guards today said, they have recovered the bodies of 20 Rohingya women and children whose boat capsized, as they fled violence in Myanmar. <br/><br/>A commander with Bangladesh's border guards Ariful Islam said the bodies of 11 Rohingya children and nine women washed up on the Bangladesh side of the Naf River that separates the two countries. <br/><br/>Around 18,500 Rohingya Muslims, many sick and some with bullet wounds, have managed to slip into Bangladesh since Friday when a series of coordinated attacks by Rohingya insurgents on security forces in the north of Myanmar's Rakhine state led to a massive military crackdown.<br/><br/>Bangladesh has pushed back a total of 366 Rohingya trying to enter the country mainly by small wooden boats, though thousands of others have set up temporary camps along the porous land border between the countries. <br/><br/>Myanmar has evacuated thousands of Rakhine Buddhists from the area, where ongoing clashes have so far killed at least 117 people, most of them Rohingya insurgents but also security officials.

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