Floating Island: New home for Rohingya refugees emerges in Bay of Bengal

February 22, 2018 9:45 AM

DHAKA/BHASAN CHAR/COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH (REUTERS) – Bangladesh is racing to turn an uninhabited and muddy Bay of Bengal island into home for 100,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled a military crackdown in Myanmar, amid conflicting signals from top Bangladeshi officials about whether the refugees would end up being stranded there.

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