They were held from Hotal Rajmoni at Bazarghata around 10:00am Thursday, said RAB-7 commander Major Md Mehedi Hasan. The human traffickers have been identified as Nurul Islam, 22, from Chunti at Chattogram’s Lohagara Upazila and Zahid, 27, a Rohingya man from Myanmar. “Around three people managed to flee before the RAB team got there. The two smugglers had assembled the Myanmar refugees there in order to go to Malaysia by sea, the detainees have told the elite police unit. A case will be filed over the incident, said the RAB official.

Source: bd News24 February 14, 2019 09:11 UTC