On Sunday morning (2 October 2022) a Rohingya teen was killed when a landmine exploded in Myanmar territory close to Ghumdhum border in Bandarban while he went there to catch fish.
The deceased has beent identified as Omor Faruk, 17, son of Mohammed Ayub a resident of the Rohingya camp on no-man’s-land near Tambru area of Naikhongchhari upazila.
Jahangir Aziz, chairman of Ghumdhum union, said, “Crossing the border, Faruk went to a stream inside the Myanmar territory to catch fish. At that time, the landmine went off and he died on the spot.”
Later, his body was brought back and buried, he added.
Over the past few weeks, Myanmar military reportedly continued its air and ground shelling against the Arakan Army.
A Rohingya from Zero line said that placing the landmines against the barbed wire on the border is a usual matter for Myanmar forces.
Locals and refugees along the Ghumdhum border are living in fear as the Arakan Army has been fighting with Myanmar security forces in the state.
On September 16, a Rohingya boy was killed and five others were injured as a mortar shell fired by the Myanmar army exploded at the Zero Point Rohingya Camp close to the international border in Tombru, Bandarban.
