Bodies of six Rohingya people and one missing Border Guard Bangladesh member were recovered from the sea on Sunday.
The bodies were recovered a day after a boat carrying the Rohingyas sank into the Bay of Bengal near Teknaf upazila in Cox鈥檚 Bazar early Saturday.
The body of BGB sepoy Md Billal Hossain who slipped and went missing in the sea in the dark night while rescuing the Rohingyas early Saturday was found floating in the deep sea 32 hours later, according to BGB officials.聽聽聽
BGB 2 Battalion commanding officer in Teknaf Lieutenant Colonel Md Ashikur Rahman said that they had recovered the body of BGB member Billal floating in the deep sea at a location between Shahparir Dwip and Saint Martins at about 11:50am on Sunday.
鈥榃e have also recovered six bodies of Rohingya people on Sunday and rescued 25 Rohingyas alive on Saturday,鈥� he said, adding that BGB would hand over the body to family after autopsy and legal procedure along with BGB鈥檚 traditional procedure and namaz-e-janaza.聽
He said that bodies of the six Rohingya people were buried at Damdamia graveyard following a namaz-e-janaza.
Ashikur said that the rescue operations were still going on.
The boat jamp-packed with Rohingya people sank at a location near Paschimpara terminal of Shahparir Dwip early Saturday as the Bangladesh security forces tracked the boat, carrying passengers fleeing from war-hit Myanmar, trying to sneak into the country鈥檚 territory illegally, said Border Guard Bangladesh officials.
Rohingyas continue to enter Bangladesh illegally from Mymanmar鈥檚 conflict-hit state of Rakhine reportedly by paying boatmen and through brokers on both sides of the border.
The Rohingyas are crossing over the border using both land and river routes along Ukhia and Teknaf upazilas in Cox鈥檚 Bazar and Naikhyangchari upazila in Bandarban, local people and officials in Cox鈥檚 Bazar said.
According to the Office of the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner, 53,948 Rohingyas received temporary joint registration from the RRRC and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for entering the camps in 2024. Most of them took registration in August and September of the year.
A total of 156 Rohingyas were temporarily registered in January and February in 2025, RRRC officials said.
