Bandarban Correspondent: A UP member of Bangladesh named Chhaber Ahmed (45) was injured in firing from Myanmar at Naikshyongchari in Bandarban. Later, he was admitted to the Naikxyongchari Upazila Health Complex after receiving first aid at Jamchari BOP.
The incident took place on Monday (March 11) around 5 p.m. in Ward No. 8 of Naikshyongchari Sadar Union.
Injured Chhaber Ahmed Naikxyongchari is a member of Ward No. 8 of the Sadar Union.
Injured Chhaber Ahmed said that countless mortar and artillery bomb blasts occurred in Myanmar across the Jangchari border of Ward No. 8 of the Naikxyangchari Sadar Union. With the sound of these shots, it was as if an earthquake was being created.
A member of the UP said that the people of the area have been panicked by the sound of continuous gunfire and mortar shells since Sunday (March 10) night.
Earlier, 29 members of the Border Guard Police (BGP) took refuge in Bangladesh on Monday afternoon due to the ongoing conflict in Myanmar.
A BGB official said that they were first kept under the Jamchari BOP BGB camp. Later, they were disarmed and brought to 11 BGB battalion headquarters.
Chairman of the Naikshyongchari Sadar Union. Nurul Abshar Emon said that Chhaber Ahmed, a member of the UP Ward, was injured in Myanmar’s shelling. He is being treated at the Naikshyongchari Upazila Health Complex.
It is to be noted that, due to the ongoing conflict in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, 330 members of the country’s border guards had taken shelter in Bangladesh earlier. However, they were sent back to Myanmar on February 15 through mutual agreement.
