100 BGP members shifted to Teknaf from Ghumdum

One hundred members of Myanamar Border Guard Police (BGP), who fled through the Ghumdum border in Bandarban district and took refuge in Bangladesh, have been sent to Hnila in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar district.  

They escaped from Myanmar and entered Bangladesh through Ghumdum border in the last four days amid the ongoing conflicts along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border. 

Later they were sheltered at the Government Primary School at Tumbru village of Ghumdum Union. 

They were handed over to the BGB under the Hnila BOP of Teknaf Upazila on Thursday afternoon. Later they were taken to Hnila in a BGB vehicle, said Shariful Islam, public relations officer (PRO) of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB).

A total of 330 Myanmar forces including BGP, army personnel, and immigration officials have taken shelter in Bangladesh since Thursday, according to Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB). 

They have been given shelter on humanitarian grounds

Meanwhile, an unexploded mortar shell was found abandoned in Ghumdum union of Naikhongchhari upazila in Bandarban district on Thursday.

Ghumdum union ward no 5 member Md Anwar Hossein confirmed the information. He said that local children informed BGB about the abandoned mortar around 1pm.

Ghumdum police outpost In-Charge Mahafuz Imtiaz Bhuaia said that BGB recovered the mortar shell and took that away.

It is believed to have been left behind by Border Guard Police (BGP) members who fled from Myanmar.

A Bangladeshi woman and a Rohingya man were killed following an explosion of a mortar shell at a house in Ghumdum union of Naikhongchhari upazila in Bandarban district on Monday.

Besides, the academic activities of five government primary schools in Naikhangchhari upazila have been suspended.