Four Rohingyas, who are carrying Bangladeshi passports, have been detained at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.
They were held from airport’s departure terminal around 11am on Sunday (Mar 31), said Additional Superintendent Md Alamgir Hossain of the airport-based Armed Police Battalion.
They have been identified as Amina Begum, 26, Anwar, 30, Rokeya, 19, and Morijan, 23.
The four were supposed to catch a Malaysian Airlines flight for Indonesia, said police before adding they were all from Maungdaw township in Myanmar’s Rakhine.
Legal action will be taken against them, said airport police.