As many as, 330 members of Myanmar security forces and others will be sent back to their country by a ship on Thursday.
They have taken shelter in Bangladesh amid conflict between Myanmar military and armed rebel group there.
Shariful Islam, public relations officer of BGB on Wednesday said, under the supervision of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), Myanmar nationals, including members of Border Guard Police (BGP), will be handed over to the authorities of Myanmar at 8 am through Naval jetty ghat in Inani of Cox’s Bazar district.
Earlier on Tuesday, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said that the security forces’ members will be sent back to Myanmar very soon.
A tense situation has been prevailing along the border between Bandarban`s Naikhongchhari Ghumdhum and Tumbru amid fierce fighting, skirmishes and gunfire between the armed forces of the military ruler and insurgent groups inside Myanmar for over two weeks. Amid the conflict, 330 members of Myanmar army, border guards, police, immigration and other officials took refuge recently in Bangladesh.
Meanwhile, mortar shells fired from the Myanmar side recently descended into a kitchen at Jalpaitli village of Ghumdhum union in Naikhongchhari upazila of Bandarban, killing two people: a Rohingya man and a Bangladeshi woman.
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