HONG KONG — At least 46 people believed to be Rohingya fleeing violence in western Myanmar have been found dead on the banks of a river along the boundary with Bangladesh, Bangladeshi officials said on Friday.

The dead — 19 children, 18 women and 9 men — were found at points along the Naf River over the past three days, the officials said.

“We believe they were Rohingyas,” said Lt. Col. S. M. Ariful Islam, commanding officer of the local border guard battalion. “They died because their boats capsized when they were coming to Bangladesh by boat from Myanmar.”

An Associated Press photo showed Bangladeshi villagers on a beach covering the bodies of dead Rohingya women and children with a tarp.