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A prominent Rohingya leader was murdered in a refugee camp at the end of September
Photo: TANBIRUL MIRAJ RIPON / EPA-EFE
Armed attackers killed seven men in a camp for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.
Four of them died of their serious injuries right at the scene of the crime in front of an Islamic school.
Three more died in a hospital, as a local official told the news agency dpa.
The dead were teachers and students of the school.
The camp is located about 300 kilometers southeast of the capital Dhaka.
A police spokesman said the motive for the crime was still unclear.
A suspect has been arrested and further alleged perpetrators are still being sought.
The act happened less than a month after a prominent Rohingya leader who campaigned for human rights internationally was also shot dead by unknown persons in the overcrowded camp.
Escape from Myanmar
Bangladesh is a predominantly Muslim country in South Asia, Rohingya are also Muslim.
Hundreds of thousands of them fled to neighboring Bangladesh in 2017 for fear of brutal military attacks in their mostly Buddhist homeland, Myanmar.
A total of 34 camps extend over 3000 hectares in Bangladesh's southeast border district Cox's Bazar.
Together they form the largest refugee camp in the world.
Almost a million Rohingya live there in precarious conditions.
The United Nations has classified the persecution of the people in Myanmar as ongoing genocide.
The military in the Southeast Asian country has come under international criticism for the persecution.
lau / dpa / AFP