At least two people were killed today as mortar shells fired from Myanmar landed in a village across the border while 106 Burmese paramilitary border guards so far fled their posts and took refuge in Bangladesh in the past two days, officials said.
“One of the two slain people is a Bangladeshi woman while the other is a Rohingya man. They were killed at Japaitali area near the border,” deputy commissioner of bordering Bandarban Shah Mujahid Uddin told reporters.
Police said 50-year-old Hosne Ara, wife of local market trader Badshah Mia, was serving food to the unnamed 58-year-old ethnic Rohingya male day labourer when the shell hit, killing them instantly.
Boarder Guard Bangladesh (BGB) officials, meanwhile, said 11 more paramilitary Border Guard Police of Myanmar in late hours of Monday crossed the border as fierce gunfights continued on the other side of the frontier between government troops and rebel Arakan Army.
“One hundred six BGP personnel are now in our custody. Most of them brought with them their weapons. We have disarmed them,” a BGB spokesman told reporters adding the Myanmar border guards’ weapons were kept at BGB cache.
He said the BGP men entered Bangladesh through Tombru crossing of Bandarban’s Ghumdhum union and several of them came with bullet wounds and were being treated at different hospitals including health facilities in Rohingya camps in Teknaf and Cox’s Bazar.বিস্তারিত