Most of the Rohingya refugees who had taken shelter in West Bengal have left allegedly out of fear of deportation and the only existing camp in South 24 Parganas district has six of its 29 inmates left, a spokesman of the organisation which had arranged their stay said on Monday.
Twenty two Rohingyas left the Hardaha camp in South 24 Parganas district after the October 4 deportation of seven Rohingya immigrants, who had been staying in Assam illegally, to their home country Myanmar, Hussein Gazi, spokesman of the organisation 'Desh Banchao Samajik Committee' told PTI.
Gazi said that the Rohingyas in the camp, besides several other local groups, became scared after hearing reports of the deportation.
He claimed that those deported had told their counterparts in the camps on being contacted that they had been "beaten up after their return to Myanmar."
Asked where the Rohingyas who left the camp had gone, Gazi said, "We have been told many of them have headed towards Jammu."