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Mortar fired from Myanmar kills Rohingya youth in Bangladesh

Rohingya refugees gather at a market inside a refugee camp in Cox''s Bazar, Bangladesh, in 2019 [File: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters]

A Rohingya teenager has been killed and at least six people were injured when a mortar shell fired from Myanmar exploded inside Bangladesh territory, local officials and a Rohingya leader said.

The youth was killed by a mortar blast late on Friday, said Dil Mohammed, a Rohingya leader, in an area designated as no-man’s land – a strip of land along the Myanmar-Bangladesh border where an estimated 4,000 Rohingya live.

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