A Bangladeshi fisherman was killed and his two fellows were injured as the members of the Myanmar Navy opened fire on them while fishing in the Bay of Bengal on Wednesday.
The deceased, Osman Goni, 48, is a resident of Konapara of Shahpari Island under Teknaf Upazila in Cox鈥檚 Bazar.
Officials at Teknaf upazila administration said that the Myanmar Navy personnel, after opening fire targeting Bangladeshi fishing boats, took away six fishing boats and 58 fishermen, including Osman, on board the boats.
The fishing boats and the fishermen were returned to Bangladesh on Thursday, they said.
Teknaf upazila nirbahi officer Md Adnan Chaudhary said that the Myanmar Navy opened fire on Osman and his fellows while they were fishing inside Bangladesh territory of the bay. Osman died after receiving bullets fired by the Myanmar Navy personnel.
The UNO said that the Myanmar Navy opened fire targeting Bangladeshi fishing trawlers in the Bangladesh part of the Bay of Bengal between St Martin鈥檚 Island and Myanmar.
鈥楾hey (Myanmar Navy) took away six Bangladeshi trawlers with 58 fishermen,鈥� he said.
He, declining to provide the identities of the injured fishermen, said that the fishermen鈥檚 family members were informed about the incident Thursday morning.
Later in the evening, the UNO said that the Myanmar Navy handed over all the 57 fishermen on board the six boats and the body of Osman to the members of the Bangladesh Coast Guard Thursday afternoon.
On October 7 morning, the Arakan Army, a separatist group in Myanmar, abducted five Bangladeshi fishermen from Shahpari Island estuary under Teknaf upazila.
All of them were handed over to the Border Guard Bangladesh on the following day.
In late May, fisherman Hossain Ali, 48, who was injured in firing by the Arakan Army while fishing in the Naf River died while undergoing treatment at Chattogram Medical College Hospital.