Bangladesh authorities on moved more than 1,750 Rohingya Muslims to a controversial island in the Bay of Bengal despite complaints made by refugees already there.
Officials said over 3,000 Rohingya would be taken by boat to Bhashan Char island from congested camps on Bangladesh's border with Myanmar.
A Navy ship packed with migrants on its top deck set off from the port city of Chittagong.
Bangladesh has struggled to cope with more than 700,000 Rohingyas who fled across the frontier in 2017 after a Myanmar military crackdown on the Muslim minority.
That added to 300,000 already in the camps.
With the new arrivals, some 7,000 Rohingya would be on the 13,000-acre (53-square kilometre) island.
The government has said about 100,000 people could be settled on Bhashan Char from the camps.
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