BBC presenter helps refugee

BBC travel presenter Simon Reeve has revealed he helped a young Rohingya refugee who was beaten by Burma’s military while filming a new BBC2 series.

The adventurer was visiting a camp of displaced Rohingya when the encounter took place.

He said: “We came across this guy, a Rohingya man who had gone back to try and check on his farm inside Burma. He had been caught by the Burmese military. He had his skull fractured by them and he crawled back across the border. I had to treat him and bandage up his head, which was bleeding heavily, and take him to a field hospital.”