Rohingya leader shot dead as repatriation tensions flare

By Lindsay Murdoch
Updated January 23 2018 - 1:08pm, first published 1:00pm
ROHINGYA INTERVIEW
Laila Begum holds her son Mohammed Ifran??????s hand as he recieves treatment at the Red Cross Field Hospital in Kutupalong refugee camp. Mohammed only 40 days old, is malnourished and weighed 1.8 kilograms. Kutupalong, Cox??????s Bazar, Bangladesh. 28th November, 2017. Photo: Kate Geraghty
ROHINGYA INTERVIEW Laila Begum holds her son Mohammed Ifran??????s hand as he recieves treatment at the Red Cross Field Hospital in Kutupalong refugee camp. Mohammed only 40 days old, is malnourished and weighed 1.8 kilograms. Kutupalong, Cox??????s Bazar, Bangladesh. 28th November, 2017. Photo: Kate Geraghty

Bangkok: A Rohingya leader has been shot dead as tensions rise over a plan to send hundreds of thousands of refugees living in sprawling refugee camps in Bangladesh back to their homelands in Myanmar.

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