Jammu, Oct. 19 -- Around 350 Rohingya refugee families have lost their shelters and shops in Jammu's Narwal area after authorities acted against landowners who had rented plots to them, even as many said they did not know where to go next and some said they had been sleeping in the open.

Many of the families fled violence in Myanmar more than a decade ago. "It seems there is nowhere to go," Mohammad Arif, a 29-year-old shopkeeper, told Article 14.

Arif was a Class 8 student when his family left Rakhine State in western Myanmar in 2012. He said five people, including his cousin, were shot dead in front of them when the military came to their village. The family of 11 reached India through Bangladesh and settled in Narwal, where some rela...