Seven more members of Myanmar’s Border Guard Police have fled to Bangladesh amid clashes between the Myanmar military and the armed rebel group, Arakan Army. — New Age file photo
Seven more members of Myanmar’s Border Guard Police have fled to Bangladesh amid clashes between the Myanmar military and the armed rebel group, Arakan Army.
With them, the number of BGP personnel who took shelter in Bangladesh so far stands at 113.
Shariful Islam, public relations officer of Border Guard Bangladesh, said that 113 BGP members had so far entered Bangladesh through Tumbru border in Naikhangchhari upazila of Bandarban district with arms and ammunition, due to the ongoing clashes inside Myanmar.
The BGB disarmed them and took them to a safe shelter, he said.
The BGB PRO said that members of the BGP started taking shelter in Bangladesh since Sunday morning.
Meanwhile, at least two civilians were killed and several hundred others started fleeing bordering villages in Bangladesh’s hilly Bandarban district on Monday as repeated artillery shells were fired from Myanmar during the ongoing conflict between the ethnic Arakan Army and Myanmar troops along the international border.
New Age
