BANGLADESH NEWS
Bangladesh border and coast guards Thursday morning pushed back an engine-driven boat carrying 25 Myanmarese seeking refuge from violence.
The group tried to enter Bangladesh through Teknaf.
The boat was sent back around 7:30am after remaining moored at the BGB post whole night.
One BGB patrol team intercepted the boat as it approached the BGB Shah Pori Dwip observatory post in Teknaf around 8:30pm Wednesday.
Escaping the BGB vigilance, the boat managed to arrive at the post under incessant rain and darkness in the night, BGB 42 Battalion Operation Officer H Kamrul Hassan told .
It travelled along Myanmar border following Teknaf route from Naf confluence, he added.
For the last few days, refugee boats kept coming but the BGB has been pushing them back. Many rights bodies expressed deep concern about the push back.
The border guards remain on high alert as Bangladesh on Wednesday reiterated that there would be no trans-boundary spillover following the sectarian violence in the neighbouring country.
Earlier on Monday, in the face of deadly clashes, the UN released a statement saying it had decided "to temporarily relocate, on a voluntary basis, non-essential international and national" UN staff, affiliated organisations and their families from Rakhine state of Myanmar.
On Sunday, the Myanmar government declared state of emergency in Rakhine state.
Death toll in the violence reached 21 as of Wednesday, Reuters reports.
Tensions between Buddhists and Muslim Rohingyas, a stateless people, turned violent in Myanmar's northwest over the past week, after the gang rape and murder of a Buddhist woman, widely blamed on Muslims, sparked bloody reprisals.
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