Cops release 39 foreigners held for trying to enter Rohingya camps

Police have released 39 foreign nationals detained for attempting to enter the Rohingya refugee camps at Ukhiya in Cox's Bazar without permission, reports bdnews24.com.

Cox's Bazar Additional Superintendent of Police Afruzul Haque Tutul said the law enforcers released the foreigners around 4pm on Sunday on getting undertakings by their respective organisations that they would not do so in the future.

The nationals of the US, Japan, France, Turkey, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Denmark and several other countries are employed by various non-government organisations, including some international ones, and entered the Rohingya camps on 'tourist visas', he said.

They were detained at a checkpoint on Ukhiya's Shaheed ATM Jafar Alam Road earlier in the afternoon, the police officer said.