Cox's Bazar, Aug. 21 -- Bangladesh is ready to send back the first batch of Rohingyas to their place of origin in Rakhine State of Myanmar on Thursday, says an official.

Five buses and two trucks have been kept standby at Ghumdhum transit point in Bandarban in addition to taking tight security measures along the border, said Refugee, Relief and Repatriation Commissioner (RRRC) Md Abul Kalam on Wednesday.

Representatives of UN refugee agency UNHCR and RRRC took interviews of 235 Rohingya families at Shalbagan Rohingya camp in Teknaf upzila on Tuesday and Wednesday, he said, declining to disclose whether the interviewees agreed to return to their homeland.

Abul Kashem, a Rohingya man of the camp, said, "We'll return only if the Myanmar g...