COX’S BAZAR: The number of Rohingya who have fled violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state to Bangladesh since August 25 has reached 313,000, a UN spokesman said Monday.
The estimate came from Joseph Tripura, a spokesman for the UN refugee agency.
The United Nations and the Bangladesh government have said the number arriving has slowed down in recent days although the situation is still volatile.
On Sunday the UN said some 294,000 Rohingya had arrived, a jump of only 4,000 from the previous day.
“Many new arrivals are still on the move and residing on the roadsides, and are left out of the calculations due to the lack of comprehensive tracking mechanism,” said a UN coordination report Monday.
