Two blasts rock a Myanmar area near the Bangladeshi border, accompanied by the sound of gunfire and thick black smoke, as violence that has sent nearly 90,000 Muslim Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh shows no sign of easing.

Two women and a minor boy of Rohingya community drown and three others remain missing as a boat carrying the fleeing Rohingyas capsizes in Naf River in Hwaikong Bazar area of Teknaf.

The Rohingyas, who fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar, share their horrific experience of persecution by the neighbouring country’s army in Rakhine state.

Rights body, Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh (HRPB) submits a memorandum to the office of Myanmar embassy in Dhaka, demanding that Myanmar government immediately stop repression on Rohingyas and bring them back from Bangladesh to that country.

In light of the dramatic worsening of the situation in Myanmar's Rakhine state, the UN Refugee Agency communicates to Bangladesh government its readiness to support Bangladesh in helping the Rohingya refugees flee across the border.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia calls upon the government to provide shelter and security to the Rohingyas who are being forced to flee fresh escalation of violence in Rakhine State of Myanmar.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members send back 146 Rohingyas who entered the country in the wake of fresh tensions between the insurgents and Myanmar security forces since last night.

Myanmar must scrap restrictions on movement and citizenship for its Rohingya minority if it wants to avoid fuelling extremism and bring peace to Rakhine state, a commission led by former United Nations chief Kofi Annan says.

A new body set up by Myanmar's government to investigate allegations of rights abuses against Rohingya in Rakhine lacks credibility, activists said Friday, as former UN chief Kofi Annan began a visit to the troubled state.

Malaysia's national soccer team has cancelled two friendly under-22 matches with Myanmar, in protest against the Southeast Asian nation's bloody crackdown on ethnic Rohingya Muslims, a team spokesman said on Thursday.