TIB-Tension on border with Myanmar as smugglers' boat is seized

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The Independent Bangladesh
Tension on border with Myanmar as smugglers' boat is seized
from Our Correspondent

COX'S BAZAR, Jan 21: Seizure of a boat carrying smuggled goods this morning
has triggered tension along the border with Myanmar at
Naikkongchhari-Tombro.

The border security forces of the two countries, BDR and Nasaka, have taken
up position along the border.

Sources said that a group of smugglers took three boats loaded with smuggled
goods from Myanmar and tried to enter Bangladesh through the Dhekibunia
canal this morning. The BDR jawans obstructed the boats and seized one of
them.

The other two boats fled under cover provided by Nasaka, sources added.

A three-hour exchange of gunshots took place on December 29, 1999 after the
Nasaka forces started firing into the Bangladesh territory over a dacoity
incidence.

The Nasaka troops abducted 20 Bangladeshi woodcutters from the Tombro-Amtali
border area after firing for about an hour on Monday. Two woodcutters were
injured. They were admitted to the local Ukhia Thana Health Complex.