Yesterday around 3:30 PM, Foreign Secretary Masud bin Momen said Bangladesh will warn Myanmar about firing mortar shells on the border. Momen said this when asked about the mortar shells fired by Myanmar at Tumbru Bazar area of Ghumdhum border of Naikkangchari in Bandarban on Sunday afternoon.
Two mortar shells fell in Tumbru Bazar area of the border, which remained unexploded. There were no casualties.
Momen told reporters in his office that the fall of unexploded mortar shells on the Bangladesh border will be investigated whether it was an accident or intentional. Myanmar will be alerted if there is an accident.
The Foreign Secretary said that Myanmar’s mortar shell had fallen on the border before. There were still protests.
Talking to the local administration and residents of Ghumdhum area, it is said that the Arakan Army has been fighting with the Myanmar army across the border in Rakhine state for more than two weeks. There was a fierce fight between the two sides from this morning. At noon, Myanmar army helicopters and warplanes were seen circling the border. Later in the afternoon, a mortar shell fell within the border of Bangladesh.
Chairman of Ghumdhum Union Parishad AKM Jahangir Aziz told the reporter that the people of the area beside four thousand two hundred members of 621 families of Rohingyas in the zero line shelter camp are more frightened by the sound of gunshots due to mortar shells. BGB is on high alert. No one is allowed to approach the zero line.
