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Subject: Bangladesh arrests Myanmar men with live grenades 

Bangladesh arrests Myanmar men with live grenades
04:51 a.m. Mar 16, 1999 Eastern
COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh, March 16 (Reuters) - Bangladeshi border guards have
arrested five Myanmar men carrying grenades, guns and ammunition, security
officials said on Tuesday.

They said the group was detained near the Bangladesh border town of Teknaf
on Monday, on the Naf river that flows between Cox's Bazar district and
Myanmar's western Arakan province.

``The grenades were live and of the type usually used by the army,'' said
Colonel Waliullah of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), the border force.

``We also seized weapons including a pistol and ammunitions for rifles,'' he
told Reuters by telephone.

``Two sets of uniforms which the Nasaka (Myanmar border force) put on while
on duty were also seized from the arrested men,'' he said.

``The group may be a gang of dacoits (robbers)... but we are surprised to
see live army grenades in their possession. Police are interrogating them,''
one Teknaf official said.

``The group was challenged and arrested by the BDR while moving in a boat at
Babarmokam, a fishing village in Teknaf,'' he said.

On Saturday, the BDR arrested three unarmed members of outlawed Arakan Army
of Myanmar also at Teknaf, police said without giving details.


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