Bandarabn’s Ruma, Roangchhari closed to tourists amid security concerns

October 18, 2022

DESK REPORT Local administrations have closed Bandarban’s Ruma and Roangchhari for tourists amid security concerns in the hill tracts. For a week, joint forces have been carrying out an anti-terrorist operation in Ranmagati’s Bilaichhari bordering Bandarban’s Ruma and Roangchhari. Armed terrorists have recently become more active in the hill tracts. Officials Continue Reading

Shelling resumes in Myanmar frightening Bangladeshi residents along the border

October 11, 2022

NEWS DESK The residents of Naikhyangchari in the bordering areas of Bandarban district were in a panic as the fresh sounds of firing and shelling of artillery and mortars were heard from inside Myanmar. The shelling resumed on Sunday night (Oct 9, 2022), after a break of 11 days, causing panic among several thousand villagers […]Continue Reading

BGB on highest alert along border with Myanmar: DG

October 10, 2022

NAIKHONGCHHARI CORRESPONDENT, BAISHARI CORRESPONDENT The Border Guard Bangladesh, or BGB, has been put on maximum alert along the border with Myanmar, BGB Director General Major General Shakil Ahmed has said. “Along the border, the BGB is on the highest level of alert. The BGB has a record of every bullet fired from the other side […]Continue Reading

Another Bangladeshi loses leg in landmine blast along Myanmar border

October 5, 2022

NEWS DESK A second Bangladeshi man in less than 3 weeks has lost a leg in a landmine explosion near the border with Myanmar along Naikhongchhari of Bandarban. The injured was identified as Abdul Kader, 27, a resident of Chherakum area in Dochhari union under the upazila. Several organs of his body including his eyes […]Continue Reading

Myanmar shelling along Bangladesh border continues; BGB patrols reinforced

September 21, 2022

NAIKHONGCHHARI CORRESPONDENT Wednesday morning, it was exactly 8:49. Myanmar’s security forces fired two mortar shells, one from Myanmar’s Tumbru Right Camp at Bangladesh’s Pillar No. 34 and the other from Myanmar’s Kokkotoingya Camp at Bangladesh’s Pillar No. 37. The people of Tumbru were scared when the first mortar shell went off on Continue Reading

No-man’s land Rohingyas turn to UN for protection from ‘Myanmar junta attack’

September 20, 2022

NAIKHYANCHHARI CORRESPONDENT Rohingya refugees living in the no-man’s land, a strip of land along Bangladesh-Myanmar border and near Tugmbru of Bandarban’s Naikhyanchhari upazila, have called on the United Nations to ensure their security amid a slew of violent incidents near the border. They wrote to the United Nations upon reaching a consensus about this at Continue Reading

Bangladeshi injured in mine blast along Myanmar border in Bandarban

September 16, 2022

GHUMDHUM CORRESPONDENT, NAIKHONGCHHARI, BANDARBAN A tribal Bangladeshi was seriously injured in a mine explosion along the Myanmar border in Bangladesh’s Bandarban. The incident took place at the Zero Line near Pillar No 35 of the Tumbru border in the hill district’s Naikhongchhari upazila around 1:30 pm on Friday (Sept 16, 2022). The victim has been […]Continue Reading

Bullets from Myanmar once again land in Bangladesh

September 15, 2022

NAIKHONGCHHARI CORRESPONDENT, BANDARBAN Two bullets fired from Myanmar have once again been found at Ghumdhum Tumbru border in Bandarban’s Naikhongchhari. Jhinuk Tanchangya, a child daughter of Tumbru Headman Para’s Usain Tanchangya’s, found two bullets while playing in front of his house on Thursday (September 15). After a four-day pause, locals said, sounds of gunfire Continue Reading

Fighting between Myanmar security forces, Arakan army re-erupts; border road construction in Bandarban halted

September 6, 2022

STAFF CORRESPONDENT, BANDARBAN Myanmar security forces have once again been involved in a fierce clash with the Arakan Army (AA), a rebel group in Myanmar. The sound of heavy shelling that resumed on Tuesday (Sept 6) following a two-day lull, sent panic among Bangladeshi people living along the Naikhongchhari border in Bandarban. Bangladeshis on the […]Continue Reading

Myanmar violates Bangladesh airspace, fires mortar shells

September 3, 2022

STAFF CORRESPONDENT/BANDARBAN AND BAISHARI CORRESPONDENTS Two mortar shells fired from Myanmar’s warplanes have once again landed inside Bangladesh. On Saturday (Sept 3) at 9:30 am, those shells fell in the Ghumdhum area of Naikhongchhari upazila of Bandarban. This is the third time such incidents have happened. Bandarban Superintendent of Police (SP) Tariqul Islam Continue Reading