The members of Border Guard of Bangladesh (BGB) have detained 108 Rohingyas, who entered Bangladesh illegally through the Balukhali border of Ukhia with the help of traffickers, in a drive at Panbazar in Balukhali of Cox’s Bazar on Friday.
A BGB official was also shot in a gunfight with the traffickers during the drive.
The injured BGB official, Fazlul Haque, was admitted to a local hospital after the shootout, which took place around 12:30pm.
The traffickers themselves are also Rohingya.
Commander of BGB 17 battalion Lt Col Khandaker Saiful Alam said the traffickers brought the Rohingyas to Bangladesh and made them get into two cars to send them to Kutupalang camp in the morning.
“BGB detained the Rohingyas before they were sent to the camp which is when the gun battle with the traffickers began,” he said.
Saiful said the detainees would be sent back to Myanmar.
BGB also claimed that the local union parishad chairman, Gafur Uddin Chowdhury, had instigated the traffickers to shoot at the BGB officials.
Officer-in-Charge of Ukhia police station Jahirul Islam Khan said an operation had been launched to capture those responsible for the incident.
Source: Dhaka Tribune
