Panic has gripped the refugee camps in Myanmar with many ready to cross over to Bangladesh. (File)
Dhaka:
A minimum of 95 Myanmar border guards, a few of them wounded, have fled to Bangladesh over the previous couple of days as combating intensifies between insurgent forces in Myanmar and the junta regime, officers in Bangladesh mentioned on Monday.
Since mounting a coup in opposition to an elected authorities in 2021, the junta is dealing with its greatest problem, making an attempt to include a bloody rise up which has seen allied anti-junta teams backed by a pro-democracy parallel authorities seize management of a number of army posts and cities.
The sound of gunfire could possibly be heard from throughout the Myanmar border in Bangladesh’s southeastern vacationer district of Cox’s Bazar, the place almost a million members of the Muslim minority from Myanmar dwell in bamboo-and-plastic hut camps after fleeing a army crackdown there in 2017.
Members of the Myanmar Border Guard Police (BGP) entered Bangladesh with their weapons and 15 of them had bullet wounds once they crossed the border, Shariful Islam, a spokesman for Border Guard Bangladesh, mentioned on Monday, including that the wounded obtained therapy at totally different hospitals.
The BGP troops could possibly be accommodated within the close by district of Bandarban earlier than they’re despatched again to Myanmar, mentioned Mohammed Mizanur Rahman, Bangladesh’s refugee aid and repatriation commissioner based mostly in Cox’s Bazar.
”I’ve been requested if the BGP might be sheltered safely in transit camps that have been in-built Bandarban for repatriating Rohingya refugees. The camps are empty,” Rahman mentioned.
Bullets and mortar shells from throughout the Myanmar border landed on Bangladesh territory on Monday, killing no less than two individuals, a authorities official in Cox’s Bazar mentioned.
”A Bangladeshi lady and a Rohingya have been killed and a toddler injured close to the border by a mortar shell fired from Myanmar,” mentioned Mohammad Shamsud Douza, the deputy Bangladesh authorities official answerable for refugees.
Many residents on the Bangladeshi facet of the border have fled to the homes of kin additional away from violence out of worry, he mentioned.
Panic has gripped the refugee camps in Myanmar with many ready to cross over to Bangladesh as provide chains have been reduce off as a result of ongoing battle, in accordance with Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.
”At times we hear the sound of gunshots from Myanmar. A number of the Rohingya Muslims need to flee right here as they’re dwelling in fixed worry with out primary wants,” Rohingya refugee Oli Hossain mentioned.
”Even we live in worry due to the sound of gunshots.”
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