A Malaysian aid ship has anchored off Bangladesh bringing relief goods for some of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who've fled Myanmar.
Military spokesman Shaheenul Islam said Bangladesh has welcomed the ship that anchored near Sonadia island off the coastal district of Cox's Bazar.
Islam said today that the government was taking all the necessary procedures to unload the ship's goods and transport them by road to Teknaf, the sub-district in Cox's Bazar that borders Myanmar.
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya are camping there officially and in unregistered camps.
More than 300,000 Rohingya Muslims have been living in Bangladesh for decades, while about 66,000 more have crossed the border since October amid renewed persecution and targeted attacks by soldiers and majority Buddhists in Myanmar's Rakhine state.
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