The people in bordering areas of Teknaf upazila in Cox鈥檚 Bazar district had to pass sleepless night after midnight past Saturday as panic gripped them due to the sounds of gunshots and bomb explosions in Myanmar territory.
Meanwhile, Rohingyas were again entering Bangladesh fleeing conflict in Myanmar, officials said.
Locals said that explosions could be heard at night in Sadar, Sabrang Shahpari union and some border points of Teknaf upazila.
A hand grenade was found in a floating bag in the Naf River of Teknaf Sunday morning. It was found by local fishermen who handed it over to the members of Border Guard Bangladesh.
Teknaf-2 BGB battalion commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Mohiuddin Ahmed confirmed the news.
He said that local fishermen saw a bag floating on the Naf River at Sabrang Point in the morning.
鈥榃hen they opened the bag, they found a grenade inside it. The fishermen informed the matter to BGB members. A team of BGB reached the spot and took the grenade under their custody. There is no specific information about the grenade鈥檚 manufacturing country and how the bag came to the river, he added.
The hand grenade has been kept in the BGB battalion office, said the official.
Ukhia Upazila Nirbahi Officer Tanveer Hossain and Teknaf UNO Adnan Chowdhury separately said that some new Rohingya families had taken shelter in different camps of the upazilas.
鈥楢 large number of Rohingyas were sent back to Myanmar from the Naf River during the infiltration. Patrolling along the Naf River and the border has been strengthened to prevent infiltration,鈥� Teknaf UNO, however, said.
Main Uddin, assistant superintendent of police of 16 Armed Police Battalion said that, Some Rohingyas had entered the camps.聽
Teknaf-2 BGB battalion commanding officer Lieutenant colonel Mohiuddin Ahmed said that, they were resisting the attempts of Rohingyas to enter Bangladesh.聽
Additional Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner Md Shamsud Douza said that 8,000 Rohingyas had entered Bangladesh after the fall of the Awami League government on August 5.
Foreign adviser Md Touhid Hossain said that Bangladesh was already hosting 12 lakh Rohingya people and it could not afford even a single more from Myanmar.
