Rohingyas still using Bangladeshi passport
Eight arrested at Shahjalal airport
Rohingyas have continued their frantic efforts to travel abroad with fake or genuine Bangladeshi passports and documents.
Armed Police Battalion (APBn) and immigration police on Monday night arrested eight such Rohingyas, including two females, at Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.
They were trying to go to Kuwait and Malaysia, pasting their photographs on valid passports.
ABM Atiqur Rahman, senior assistant superintendent of the APBn, said the force arrested 50 Rohingyas at the airport last year. The number of arrests was six last month, he added.
Once abroad, a number of Rohingyas commit different kinds of crime, tarnishing the image of Bangladesh. The problem has remained unaddressed for a long time.
Police sources said they caught six of the Rohingyas in the transit point of the immigration terminal area around 5:00pm. They were to go to Kuwait.
The six arrested men are Noor Alam, 26, Zaber, 32, Ilias, 20, Md Rafique, 32, Shahidul Amin, 20, and Faruque, 22. ASP Atiqur said they admitted that they gave a broker handsome amounts of money for arranging the passports with fake photographs.
The two Rohingya women--Saleha Khatun, 23, and Yasmin Begum, 19--were arrested at a check-in row. They tried to travel to Malaysia.
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