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Two leaders of the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh were reportedly hacked to death on Saturday, according to local police.
The boat overturned while returning from a Hindu temple on the Karatoa River in Panchagarh district in northern Bangladesh, local police chief SMÂ Sirajul Huda said.
The bodies recovered so far included 12 women and eight children, said Jahurul Islam, district administrator of northern Panchagarh, where the accident occurred in Bangladesh.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said. "They don't act. They can talk but they don't act," she said on a visit to New York for the United Nations General Assembly.
Bangladesh has been hard hit by the global food crisis caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and is exploring new ways of importing grain after its biggest supplier India banned grain exports in May.
Trapped in inhumane camps and unable to return to their homes, Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are the victims of state violence and increasingly hostile conditions from the country that once welcomed them so openly, writes Tasnima Uddin.
Sanjida Islam Tulee, the sister of an opposition official allegedly abducted by the notorious Rapid Action Battalion group, said "more than 600 people have become victims of enforced disappearance by the state agencies"
UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet arrived in Bangladesh to visit the Rohingya refugee camps, where there are reported human rights abuses taking place
Michelle Bachelet will meet with Prime Minister Sheikh and will visit camps housing Rohingya refugees from Myanmar.
Police have not named any suspects, but the insurgent Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), which operates both in Myanmar's western Rakhine state and in the Bangladesh camps, was reportedly behind the shootings.