7 Assam-bound Rohingya kids detained in Tripura

AGARATLA: Security forces on Sunday detained seven children of Rohingya Muslims at a railway station in northern Tripura adjoining Assam, a RPF official said here. With this, 68 Rohingyas, mostly children, have been apprehended in Tripura and the Assam-Tripura border in 2 weeks.
"Six girls and a boy belonging to RohingyaMuslims were detained at the Dharmanagar Railway Station. The children, all under 18, would be handed over to Tripura Police for further legal formalities," an official of the RPF of the Northeast Frontier Railway said.
He said that these children accompanied by touts reached Dharmanagar from Agartala by bus and intended to go to Badarpur in southern Assam by train. "Sensing the presence of RPF troopers, the touts, who were accompanying the children, escaped from the spot (190 km from Agartala). We are also unable to understand the language the children speak.
"Railway tickets up to Badarpur railway station were found on them. They might have been trafficked by middlemen," the RPF official said.