13 Kolkata-bound Rohingyas held at Agartala railway station

A total of 13 Rohingyas were arrested from the Agartala railway station when they were about to board a Kolkata-bound train.

"We detained 16 people, including the three kids, when they were about to board the Kolkata-bound Kanchanjunga Express. They had planned to go to Jammu from Kolkata. We are now probing as to how and why these foreign nationals entered India illegally," A officer said.

He said that Tripura is being used by the Rohingyas as a transit route to go to mainland India.


The officer said that so far in February, 33 foreigners, majority of them Rohingyas, have been arrested from the railway station after they came from their camps at Cox's Bazar in Chittagong in Bangladesh.

The Border Security Force (BSF) had detained 370 persons, including 59 Rohingyas and 150 Bangladeshi nationals, in different operations in Tripura last year.