Bangladesh on Sunday sent back 134 more Myanmar Border Guard Police and Army personnel by a Myanmar Naval ship.
The personnel had recently fled to Bangladesh amid fighting with rebel forces in the bordering Rakhine state.
The ship also brought back 45 Bangladeshis, who were detained in Rakhine jails.聽
鈥楤angladesh has so far sent 752 BGP and other members, who were sheltered on humanitarian ground, back to Myanmar in three phases ,鈥� said a foreign ministry press release issued in Dhaka on Sunday.
It also mentioned that Bangladesh at the same time brought back a total of 218 Bangladeshis from Myanmar that included 173 on April 24 and 45 on June 8.
鈥楩orty five Bangladeshi nationals,聽 whose citizenship was verified earlier, left Sittwe port boarding Myanmar ship UMS Chin Dwin on Saturday and reached the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport jetty聽 Cox鈥檚 Bazar later in the day. The ship left Bangladesh on Sunday carrying 134 BGP and other members back to Myanmar,鈥� said the release.聽
The process was completed as per the decision of an inter-ministerial meeting organised by the foreign affairs ministry recently.聽
Foreign ministry鈥檚 Myanmar wing director general Mainul Kabir said that the director of his wing received the Bangladeshis from the ship.
Four buses carrying Myanmar鈥檚 BGP and military personnel arrived at the BIWTA jetty in Cox鈥檚 Bazar before they were repatriated on Sunday morning by the ship, 抖阴精品 correspondent in Cox鈥檚 Bazar reported.
The forty five Bangladeshis were brought back by Bangladesh ship Karnaphuli Tug-1 from the Myanmar Navy ship stationed in Myanmar waters.
Additional district magistrate of Cox鈥檚 Bazar Yamin Hossain said that the process of handover of Myanmar citizens, who had taken refuge in Bangladesh and Bangladeshis imprisoned in Myanmar were completed had been completed in the presence of the officials concerned on Sunday.
Earlier on April 25, 288 BGP and army personnel who took refuge in Bangladesh returned to Myanmar in the second phase.聽
On February 15, Bangladesh sent back 330 Myanmar Border Guard Police personnel, army and customs officials who had taken refuge in Bangladesh in the first phase.
Representatives from the Bangladesh Embassy in Yangon and Bangladesh Consulate, Sittwe were present to coordinate with the local authorities, conduct verification process and issue Travel Permits in favour of the returnees.
