Killings sow fear inside Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh

A Rohingya refugee child applies a makeover in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, July 4, 2018. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

COX'S BAZAR/DHAKA, Bangladesh (Reuters) - Bangladesh is deploying thousands of extra police to Rohingya refugee camps in the south, officials said, after a series of mostly unexplained killings that have sown fear among hundreds of thousands of people who have fled from neighbouring Myanmar.

Since August, when a military crackdown in Myanmar forced many of the Muslim minority to cross the border into Bangladesh and seek shelter in the crowded camps, 19 people, some of them community leaders, have been killed.