Not less than one Rohingya youth was killed and several other extra younger refugees have been injured when two mortar shells reportedly fired from the Myanmar facet fell and exploded within the no-man’s land alongside Bangladesh’s southeastern border Friday evening, Bangladeshi police mentioned.
The youths have been all refugees from a camp within the no-man’s land on the Myanmar-Bangladesh border, Extra Superintendent of Police (Sadar Circle) of Bandarban, Md. Reza Sarwar, advised BenarNews. The incident occurred amid reviews of intense combating close to the Myanmar facet of the border recently between Burmese junta forces and rebels in neighboring Rakhine state.
The police official mentioned not less than 5 injured Rohingya have been admitted to native hospitals. The youth who died within the incident was recognized as Mohammad Iqbal, 18, son of Matlab Hossain.
The shells reportedly landed in an space that borders Bangladesh’s Bandarban district, Reza Sarwar added.
A Rohingya resident from the world, Dil Mohammad, mentioned the shells have been fired round 8:30 p.m. Friday.
One other resident Md. Kamal concurred.
“Two mortar shells landed in no-man’s land on the time. And we have been listening to sounds of shelling from afternoon to nighttime. Individuals are scared within the neighborhood,” he advised BenarNews.
Bangladeshi officers say greater than 4,000 Rohingya refugees have been residing in no-man’s land for the final 5 years since a brutal crackdown by the Myanmar navy compelled the ethnic minority to flee their houses in August 2017. Some 740,000 Rohingya crossed the frontier and took refuge in camps in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district.
Lt. Col. Faizur Rahman, director (operations) of the Border Guard Bangladesh, advised reporters that the company instantly lodged a protest about Friday’s incident with the Border Guard Police of Myanmar.
This wasn’t the primary time that the combating between Arakan Military rebels and the Myanmar navy in Myanmar had come near the Bangladesh border.
On Aug. 28, throughout heavy combating in Myanmar’s border state of Rakhine, two mortar shells landed in the identical space however didn’t go off. An analogous incident additionally occurred on Aug. 20 as nicely.
This month alone, Dhaka has protested and summoned Myanmar’s ambassador to Bangladesh thrice to protest these incidents.
Earlier this week, Bangladesh Dwelling Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal mentioned the nation’s border police had bolstered safety alongside the frontier with Myanmar.
Amid the tense state of affairs inside Myanmar, just a few new Rohingya households have arrived in Cox’s Bazar, the place Bangladesh already hosts about a million refugees from Myanmar.
One of many new arrivals advised BenarNews on Sept. 10 that he noticed “a number of hundred” individuals clustered alongside the Naf River that separates Cox’s Bazar from Rakhine state, and who have been making an attempt to cross the border a number of days earlier.
It was not instantly clear what occurred to these different individuals apparently displaced by intense clashes in latest weeks between junta forces and the Arakan Military.
BenarNews is an RFA-affiliated information service.
