Cox's Bazar District
Turkey to continue sending humanitarian aid to Rohingya: Envoy
Turkey's Ambassador to Bangladesh Mustafa Osman Turan said on Nov. 13 that his country would continue its whole-hearted humanitarian support to Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh until the peaceful repatriation of the persecuted people to their home country of Myanmar.
14 Rohingya die, dozens unaccounted for as boat sinks off Bangladesh
At least 14 people drowned and dozens more were unaccounted for after a boat carrying Rohingya refugees sank off southern Bangladesh early on Feb. 11, officials said.
Some 130 people were packed on the fishing trawler that was trying to get across the Bay of Bengal to Malaysia, coast guard spokesman Hamidul Islam told AFP. Seventy of them had so far been rescued.
Turkish agency sends food to 1,012 Rohingya families
The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) distributed food items on April 17 to 1,012 Rohingya refugee families living in makeshift camps in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar district.
Hundreds of thousands flee as cyclone batters Bangladesh
Cyclone Mora hit Bangladesh yesterday, packing winds of up to 135 kilometers per hour, damaging thousands of homes as more than 300,000 people fled coastal villages.
The severe storm made landfall on the coast between Cox's Bazar and the main port city of Chittagong at 6:00 am local time, the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) said.