Hamida Begum, a 60-year-old woman, managed to cross the border by dodging the Bangladesh Border Guard (BGB) after passing four days at no man’s land without any food. She eventually came to Balukhali of Ghumdhum, one of the newly set up unregistered Rohingya refugee camps with one of her sons, daughters and daughters-in-law. She has built a rickety hut on a hilltop near the Balukhali camp. She is living here with other Rohingyas who have fled Myanmar.

Hamida told The Independent that she had starved at no man’s land with her family members for four days. While she was fleeing along with her family members, Rakhine Buddhists had picked up two of her sons, she lamented.

“For building a makeshift shelter here, I had to pay Tk. 2,500 to a man. I have to pay him Tk. 1,000 every month for staying here. I brought some money with me while running away from Myanmar. Right now, I'm completely penniless,” she said.

Hamida is one of the many among the newly arrived Rohingyas at Ukhiya and Teknaf. They are living in sub-human conditions.

Some influential locals and NGOs are providing some food to them. A local volunteer organisation was seen distributing food among the distressed Rohingyas yesterday morning. The organisation also brought a medical team to help the Rohingyas.

Ibrahim Khalil, a member of the organisation, said: "We're helping these helpless people on humanitarian grounds."

He also said it was not possible to help all Rohingyas. He urged foreign donor agencies to come forward for this purpose. "We're helping the Rohingyas who took shelter in Bangladesh. They came to Bangladesh as victims of torture. We'll count the number of incoming Rohingyas and they will be assisted in a systematic way,” said Sanjukta Shahny, the chief of the Cox’s Bazar office of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).

Civil society members expressed their concern over the recent influx of Rohingyas. “Our previous experience with Rohingyas is not good at all. They are involved in various crimes. However, it can't be denied that they are being repressed in Myanmar in the most inhuman way. It's important for the government to pressurise Myanmar on this issue,” said Abu Murshed Chowdhury, president of a civil society organisation.

Over 90,000 Rohingyas have crossed over to Bangladesh since August after fresh violence erupted at Rakhine State in Myanmar. However, local sources said the number of intruding Rohingyas would keep increasing in future.