The Bangladesh police authority has freed all the foreign aid workers who had been detained near Cox’s Bazar after failing to show their passports, visas or work permits, a senior police official said on Saturday.
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), the elite force of the Bangladesh police, had on Friday detained 11 aid workers and handed them over to local police.
Mohammad Abul Khair, officer-in-charge of the police station in the Ukhiya sub-district, near Cox’s Bazar, said two of the aid workers were from the U.K., two from Italy, and one each were from Turkey, the Netherlands, Norway, Belgium, Brazil, Korea and Kenya. All of them were freed after they submitted a written undertaking that they will not visit any camp or come out without valid documents, Mr. Khair added.
