Small Hindu community in Rakhine, some were killed: Aung San Suu Kyi

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi in an interview to a local TV channel said there is a small Hindu community in Rakhine and some of them have been killed even as several thousand Hindus trapped in the Rohingya crossfire have fled Myanmar in large numbers.

There is still no confirmation on the number of Hindus killed in the ongoing Rohingya crisis which has led to at least 421,000 Rohingyas fleeing Myanmar's Rakhine state.

As the Rohingya crisis continues to create fissures in the region, Indiasealed itsmaritime boundary with Bangladesh, media reports said.

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Meanwhile, nearly 500 Hindus have taken shelter in Bangladesh's southeast, Reuters reported. The Hindus fear going back to Myanmar's restive Rakhine state.

Reuters sources say the government is waiting for the Supreme Court's view on an appeal filed by the home ministryto deport Rohingyas from the country.

The Centre filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court on Monday asserting that the total number of "such illegal immigrants into our country" was more than 40,000, approximately.

The Indian government told the Supreme Court that it has "contemporaneous inputs from security agencies indicating links of some unauthorized Rohingyas with Pakistan terror organisations".

With Bangladesh bearing the brunt of the Rohingya crisis, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said she spoke to US President Donald Trump on Monday about the Rohingyas flooding the country but the US president did not make any comment.

"He just asked how is Bangladesh? I said 'it's doing very well, but the only problem that we have is the refugees from Myanmar'," Hasina told Reuters in an interview.

"But he didn't make any comment about refugees," the Bangladesh PM added.

Aung San Suu Kyi in an interview said she is doing her best and she makes no distinction between Muslims, Hindus or Rakhines. (ANI)