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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Rafiqur Rahman

Aspiring Rohingya teen builds hydraulic mini-excavator from scraps

15-year-old Rohingya refugee Mohammad Toyub tests his mini-excavator. REUTERS

To demonstrate his desire to become an engineer, a 15-year-old Rohingya refugee has constructed a small-scale hydraulic excavator from spare parts collected among the world's largest refugee settlement in Bangladesh.

Refugees in Bangladesh gathered on Thursday to mark the fifth anniversary of clashes between Rohingya insurgents and Myanmar security forces that drove hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims from their homes.

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