A US team visited the official and unofficial Kutupalong refugee camps yesterday to observe the situation of Rohingya refugees, said a refugee student from the camp.
The residents from Mawlate Ward in downtown Sittwe said they had a fierce argument with the riot police deployed for maintaining security in their ward as they could not tolerate seeing the police arbitrarily harassing a youth after arresting him with gunshot in their ward.
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