Detective Branch (DB) of Police arrested nine Rohingyas from a residential hotel of Fakirerpool area early Thursday in the city for staying in Bangladesh illegally.
On information, a team of DB Police conducted a raid at Ashian Hotel around 9:00pm and arrested nine Myanmar citizens, said Deputy Commissioner Masudur Rahman, in-charge of Media and Community Service of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.
The detainees were identified as Hossain Ahmed, 40, Shahjahan Miah, 30, Mohammad Hashim, 19, Mohammad Zubair, 20, Mohammad Aiyub, 20, Mohammad Shafiullah, 18, Habib Hossain, 35, Mohammad Yasin, 18, and Jobair, 18.
Sources said, hailing from Mongi and Mudidanger of Myanmar, they had been staying in Dhaka for more than a month and were trying to get passports as Bangladeshi citizens.
-With The Independent input
