'It was 9 am or 9.30 am. We were preparing to leave the house. At that time Myanmar army came and surrounded our house. We were trying to escape. Then they started firing randomly and 11 members of our family died instantly. The soldiers dragged the dead bodies inside the house. After that, they set  fire to the house and burnt the dead bodies to ashes.’

Jafar Alam, a bullet-hit Rohingya who is admitted now in Chittagong Medical College hospital described this horrible incident of the ongoing violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state.

Jafar is the son of Gura Mia of Tulatuli village in Maungdaw area of Myanmar. On September 5, he was admitted to Ward no 26 of Chittagong Medical College Hospital.

He told the Bangla Tribune, 'We were seven brothers and one sister. Everyone lived together. we had 24 members of our family in total. We have lost 11 members of them along with our mother and two brothers in the brush fire by the Myanmar army. '

The deceased were identified as Jafar Alam’s  mother Farida Begum( 60), brother Nurul Amin(35), brother Khairul Amin (32), Nurul Amin's wife Khurshida(30), his daughter Yasmin(12), son Murtaza(10), Arakan Ullah (5), Ehsan Ullah (2), Barkat Ullah (three months), and Jamal Hossain (16) and Jannat Ullah (6) son of Zafar Alam's elder brother Syed Hossain.

While he was asked how he came to know that the dead bodies were burnt he said, ‘My father has seen it with his own eyes. When the army surrounded the house, he was hiding in the nearby paddy field. After the army left, he went home and found this horrible scene.’

He also said, ‘My father was hiding in the paddy filed till evening. Later, at the very night, he reached the border with the live members of the family. The next morning they went to Teknaf camp. Now they are staying in that camp.’

When Jafar Alam was asked about how he came to Bangladesh, he said, ‘Army members were firing randomly. I was shot but managed to escape. Later when I reached the bank of the canal, I was brought to this side of the border by a boat. After coming here firstly I took treatment in the MSF hospital. Later I was sent to this hospital.’

Jafar Alam is in hospital with his younger brother Mohammad Rahmatullah. He said to the Bangla Tribune, ‘At that time I was in Chittagong. Our brother is in Malaysia.  He went to Malaysia by boat in 2012. All of us except the two of us are panicked. Our father broke down mentally after seeing the murder of our family members' in front of his eyes.