At least 14 members of Myanmar Border Guard Police on Sunday morning escaped the conflict zone in Rakhine and sought shelter in Bangladesh.
A senior Border Guard Bangladesh official told New Age that they had already disarmed the Myanmar soldiers and took them in their custody as ‘intruders.’
‘We will take action in this regard after getting instructions from the high up,’ the BGB official said, adding, ‘We are in continuous contact with the police and civil administration.’
Bandarban police superintendent Shaikat Shahin said that they were not sure whether the Myanmar soldiers were in uniform or in plainclothes.
The soldiers entered through the Tambru border and sought shelter to the Bangladesh Border Guard.
Panic gripped people living in the remote villages of Naikhyangchhari in Bandarban amid continious heavy firing and mortar shelling across the border in Myanmar.
Local people said that they had heard the sound of gunshots and mortar shelling from early Sunday till morning and spotted artillery shells along the border in the morning.
Meanwhile, a Bangladeshi national suffered bullet injury in the firing.
The victim, Prabindra Dhar, sustained bullet injuries in his right elbow, said Shaikat Shahin.
Thailand-based The Irrawaddy reported that the Arakan Army re-launched attacks on Myanmar’s regime in Ramree town on the Rakhine State coast.
The Myanmar junta previously bombarded the island town for weeks with fighter jets and gunboats before fighting restarted this week, according to media reports.
