Raman Sharma, chief executive of the Nakkhyangchari subdistrict administration, said gunshots during fighting between the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, or ARSA, and the Rohingya Solidarity Organization, or RSO, could be heard until midnight on Wednesday.
He said it was still not clear what happened at the refugee camp as border guards in No Man’s Land do not have jurisdiction over Bangladesh. “We have seen that two-thirds of the camp has been burnt down.”
According to the International Committee of the Red Cross, the camp housed more than 4,500 Rohingya refugees.
Ramon said some of them have taken refuge in Ghumdhum High School, while “most” others have returned to Myanmar.
The Medecins Sans Frontieres hospital for refugee camps reported one death in the fighting. Sheikh Mohammad Ali, chief of the Ukhia police station in Cox’s Bazar, said two others were injured.
