Five Rohingyas have been caught in Tripura for entering into India.

Agartala: According to police, five Rohingyas—three of them women—were detained in Tripura on Friday for allegedly entering India from Bangladesh without the proper documentation. 

A police squad stopped a bus headed for Guwahati during a regular check in the Churaibari district of North Tripura. When requested to present identification, the five Rohingyas did not have any documentation proving their nationality, according to a senior official.

"At first, they were held for questioning. The five Rohingyas acknowledged during interrogation that they were from a camp in Bangladesh and intended to travel to Hyderabad via Guwahati, according to Pritimoy Chakma, the second officer-in-charge of Churabari Police Station.