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Rohingya to stay in temporary shelters after Myanmar return

DHAKA: Rohingya refugees who return to Myanmar following a Bangladesh-Myanmar repatriation agreement will initially
Published November 25, 2017 Updated November 25, 2017 07:33am

DHAKA: Rohingya refugees who return to Myanmar following a Bangladesh-Myanmar repatriation agreement will initially have to live in temporary shelters or camps, Dhaka said Saturday.

"Primarily they will be kept at temporary shelters or arrangements for a limited time," Bangladesh Foreign Minister A.H. Mahmood Ali told reporters in the capital Dhaka.

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