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Fourteen soldiers of Myanmar’s paramilitary Border Guard Police (BGP) overnight took refuge in Bangladesh fleeing their posts amid reports of heavy gunfights between the government troops and the rebel resistance fighters in the junta-run country.
“The 14 members of their BGP fled their country. They are now in our custody,” an official of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) told reporters on Sunday at the southeastern Cox’s Bazar.
Another official, preferring anonymity, said the 14 BGP personnel crossed the border in predawn hours through the Ghumdhum border along with their weapons and sought refuge to their BGB counterparts in Cox’s Bazar.
A BGB spokesman in Dhaka, meanwhile, asked journalists to await a media briefing on the development later today.
Residents in several frontier Bangladesh villages moved to safety amid skirmishes between the government troops and the rebel Arakan Army when several mortar shells and bullets landed inside Bangladesh in the past several days though no casualty was reported.
“In two such latest incidents on Saturday night a bullet smashed the windshield of a battery-run three wheeler and a mortar shell hit a village house at Tombru area of Ghumdhum border but no one was wounded,” a member of the local union council, the lowest local government-tier, told reporters.
He said sounds of cross border gunfights on Saturday night and Sunday panicked residents in villages in the frontier.