Article 3PSNT Fatal elephant attacks on Rohingya refugees push Bangladesh to act

Fatal elephant attacks on Rohingya refugees push Bangladesh to act

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Karen McVeigh and Dinakar Peri
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Young boy becomes latest in series of casualties at Kutupalong camp in Cox's Bazar, which lies on migration route long used by elephants

Bangaldesh has pledged to step up its response to a series of deadly elephant attacks at a refugee camp housing hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees after a 12-year-old boy was trampled to death.

Shamsu Uddin died instantly when an elephant attacked him after he had fallen asleep while guarding paddy fields with friends in Uttar Shilkhali village in the coastal town of Cox's Bazar.

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