The Bangladesh-Myanmar border was sealed off to prevent possible influx of about 1,000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, Bangladeshi newspaper The Daily Star reported Thursday.

The Rohingya refugees were staying in camps along the banks of the Naf river, a river marking the border of Bangladesh and Myanmar, since December last year to enter the Bangladesh territory, the newspaper said.

Members of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), a paramilitary force in Bangladesh, were put on alert along the border of the two countries.

Mohammed Aminul Islam, Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Bangladesh's southeastern Cox's Bazar district, was quoted as saying by the daily that the border was sealed off to prevent possible influx of Rohingyas from across the border.

"BDR personnel were alerted along the border," Islam confirmed.

The DC said about 50,230 Rohingyas are now living in Cox's Bazar illegally. They are yet to be enlisted officially as refugees.

According to Refuge Relief and Repatriation Commission Office, about 200,000 Rohingyas living in Cox's Bazar are yet to be enrolled as refugees officially.

Source: Xinhua