Personnel from Dhaka’s police intelligence department arrested eight Burmese nationals from a hotel on October 1, sources in the capital said.

The police raided the Nazma hotel at midnight following a tip off and arrested seven men and one woman from Burma, as well as a Bangladeshi national.

The arrested were taken to an intelligence department office for interrogation, said an employee of the Nazma hotel, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

“Bangladeshi authorities are once again monitoring the movements of Rohingya people,” a local elder in Chittagong told Kaladan Press over telephone.

The raid at the hotel comes in the wake of a spate of earlier arrests by Bangladeshi authorities of nearly 50 Burmese nationals in Bandarban, Cox’s Bazaar and Dhaka districts. Some of the detainees were sent to Bangladeshi jails and others were pushed back to Burma, the local elder said.

Sources in Dhaka said the intelligence department gave no reason for the arrest of the eight Burmese nationals. No details have been provided about whether they will be released, imprisoned or deported.