Cops thwart refugees’ plans

In limbo: Rohingya refugees looking on as they are held at the Teknaf police station after police stopped them from fleeing the camps. — AFP

Bangladesh police have clamped down on Rohingya refugees setting sail to Indonesia, officers said, after hundreds from the persecuted Myanmar minority took the long and risky sea voyage to escape squalid camps.

Some said they had paid traffickers a relative fortune of US$1,000 (RM4,682) for a place on a boat.