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India denies it will provide homes to Rohingya in capital

Rohingya children play outside their shacks in a camp in New Delhi [File: Adnan Abidi/Reuters]

Hours after a federal minister said Rohingya will be given apartments in the capital, India’s home ministry has denied giving such instructions, saying the refugees would be held at a detention centre and eventually deported.

Earlier on Wednesday, Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs, tweeted that the mainly Muslim refugees from Myanmar living in New Delhi will be given apartments and provided with police protection.

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