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40 per cent of Myanmar's Rohingya refugees have fled to Bangladesh

The UN Security Council had earlier expressed concern over the security situation in the Rakhine State.

By :  sadhguru jaggi vasudev
Update: 2017-09-15 13:03 GMT
About 40 per cent of the total Rohingya population living in the Rakhine State of Myanmar have now fled to Bangladesh. (Photo: AP)
Rohingya Muslim girl Afeefa Bebi, who recently crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, holds her few-hours-old brother as doctors check her mother Yasmeen Ara at a community hospital in Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh.
A man shakes a Rohingya Muslim boy while trying to revive him after the boat he was traveling in capsized just before reaching shore at Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh.
A Rohingya Muslim woman Hanida Begum, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, wails as she holds her infant son Abdul Masood who died when the boat they were traveling in capsized minutes before reaching the shore of the Bay of Bengal, in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh.
A Bangladeshi boy walks towards a parked boat as smoke rises from across the border in Myanmar, at Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh.
Rohingya Muslims, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, mourn for a family member who drowned when the boat they were traveling in capsized minutes before reaching the shore, at Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh.
A Rohingya Muslim woman Hanida Begum, right, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, holds her infant son Abdul Masood who died when the boat they were traveling in capsized minutes before reaching shore, as a relative holds Masood's twin brother, in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh.
Nearly three weeks into a mass exodus of Rohingya fleeing violence in Myanmar, thousands were still flooding across the border Thursday in search of help and safety in teeming refugee settlements in Bangladesh.
UNICEF has trucks filled with emergency water, sanitation and hygiene supplies for thousands of Rohingya children heading to Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh.
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.
Since August 25, the number of Rohingya refugees who have crossed the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh has now reached 389,000.
The UN Security Council had earlier expressed concern over the security situation in the Rakhine State.

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