Coast Guard members rescued 400 Rohingyas from Shyamlapur Halbania Para Ghat in Teknaf upazila on Wednesday night.
Teknaf Station Coast Guard Officer Lieutenant Commander M Sohel Rana said they were trying to go to Malaysia illegally and remained stuck in the Bay of Bengal for two months.
After receiving information, a team of Coast Guard conducted a drive and arrested them and seized a trawler.
Mohammad Saiful Islam, Upazila Nirbahi Officer, said the Rohingyas returned after failing to anchor in Malaysia. Most of the Rohingyas rescued from the trawler are women and children, he said.
Zobair, one of the Rohingyas, said a trawler with 482 of them from Teknaf and Ukhiya camps left for Malaysia two months ago but they failed to enter the country and returned to Cox’s Bazar.
Twenty-eight people died during this period, he said.
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