Dhaka, April 29 -- A suspected measles outbreak has swept through the remote hill tracts of Kurukpata Union in Bandarban's Alikadam Upazila, with health officials and local residents pointing to vaccine hesitancy, poor communications and inadequate healthcare access.

Three Mro children have already died in Poamuhuri, a remote settlement near the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, amid a wider nationwide surge in measles infections and deaths among children.

Although samples were not collected from the dead children, health officials say two of them died from other complications, while the third died on the way to hospital after developing measles-like symptoms.

A volunteer working in Mro communities, however, said affected children have been s...