In the ongoing Rohingya Muslim crisis in Myanmar about 40 per cent of the total Rohingya population living in the Rakhine State of earstwhile Burma has fled to Bangladesh, the UN has said.
Since August 25, the number of Rohingya refugees who have crossed the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh has now reached 389,000, Stephane Dujarric, spokesman to the UN Secretary General told reporters at the UN headquarters in New York.
“In the last 24 hours alone, 10,000 people reportedly crossed into Bangladesh. Combined with those who fled during the last round of violence in Rakhine State last October, it is estimated that some 40 per cent of the total Rohingya population living in Rakhine State have now fled into Bangladesh,” he said.
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