The Pigeon Express
Authorities in Bangladesh have reversed their decision to open a women-only beach after facing accusations they were pandering to hardline Islamists. On Thursday officials had opened a 150m section of Cox’s Bazar for women and children, but hours later announced they were scrapping the idea. The decision to segregate the beach was made following requests […]
At least seven people were killed in an attack at a Rohingya camp in Bangladesh’s Cox Bazar on Friday, police said. A gang armed with guns and knives attacked a religious school before dawn in Cox Bazar’s Ukhiya area and killed three teachers, two volunteers and a student, police superintendent Shihab Kaiser Khan said. “A […]
Police in Bangladesh killed seven members of a gang of armed robbers on Monday during a raid on their hideout on a hillside overlooking a camp for Rohingya refugees in the southeast of the country, a police spokesman said. Crime and violence are on the rise in the squalid, sprawling camps around the coastal city […]