Activities at Teknaf Land Port were suspended since 2:00pm on Wednesday, about half an hour after three bullets fired from Myanmar hit three places at a time in the port area.
Panic gripped the area when the bullets hit a window glass at the land port鈥檚 office, a cargo truck, and a coconut tree at about 1:30pm and the officials, staff and workers at the port began to run for safer places.
Firing from Myanmar to the land port in Bangladesh鈥檚 southeast region occurred when the army in neighbouring Myanmar was reportedly fighting with groups in Myanmar territory.
Officials said that they were not sure whether the army or groups fighting there fired the gunshots.
The bullets were fired from the eastern side, an official at the port said.
Teknaf Upazila Nirbahi Officer Md Adnan Chowdhury said that all activities at the port remained suspended following gunshots from Myanmar.
The activities at the port would resume after reviewing the situation, he said.
Due to the conflict in Myanmar, gunshots could be heard from the bordering areas of Teknaf and Ukhia on several occasions in the past several months.