Bangladesh rescues ‘abducted’ Rohingya

Bangladeshi police have stopped 43 Rohingya refugees from being smuggled to Malaysia by boat, with a dozen women claiming they were abducted by traffickers. Acting on tip-offs, police found the refugees at two separate places in the district of Cox’s Bazar, raising the number of Rohingya being rescued from the traffickers to more than 100 in less than a week. About 740,000 of the Muslim minority fled Myanmar after a clampdown in 2017.