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Half a million Rohingya arrive in Bangladesh; UN agencies rush to provide shelter, clean water

Half a million Rohingya arrive in Bangladesh; UN agencies rush to provide shelter, clean water

29 September 2017 –United Nations News Centre, http://www.un.org/apps/news/st...D=57776#.Wc6XpMaQyM8

 

The UN refugee agency distributes aid supplies to Rohingya Hindu families taking shelter at Hindu Par village, Bangladesh. Photo: UNHCH/Roger Arnold

“The latest estimate of the number of Rohingya who have arrived in Bangladesh since violence erupted in Myanmar has crossed the half million mark, at 501,000 as of Thursday,” Andrej Mahecic, spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told reporters at today’s regular press briefing in Geneva.

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