KALADAN NEWS
Date:
2
ARMY KILLED AND 2 OTHERS
WOUNDED IN LANDMINE BLAST
By our correspondent:
Maungdaw, November 3: Two Burmese
army personnel were
killed and two others wounded in an
explosion of
landmine inside their territory on
the
villager.
The explosion was occurred at about
time) between pillar Nos. 40 and 41
at the Nasaka area
No. 2, Barua Para at under Line Thi village tract
about 38 miles north of Maungdaw town,
The landmines had been set in the no-man’s land along
the 131 miles Burma-Bangladesh land
border in their
bid to prevent trespassers and
insurgent groups by the
Burma Border Security Force (Nasaka),
said an
ex-village Chairman.
According to a eyewitness, a villager of Barua
Para
told our source that while he was
going to the forest
for cutting wood adjacent to the
camp, suddenly he
heard the explosion of the landmine
and he had gone
into hiding and watching the spot
from a distance that
he could see the sight well. Other
fellows carried
about half an hour later two dead
body and another two
wounded soldiers towards their
camp.
When asked the Rohingya National Army
(RNA) told that
the Nasaka
together with the army planted the
landmines for the insurgence
(rebellion) groups but
they themselves tragically fell
into their own trap.
They also said that 2 armies were killed on the spot
and another three were wounded
while they were going
to check the border pillars by
mistakenly stepping on
the landmine.
Bangladesh Government compelled the Burmese junta to
remove the landmines trough
vigorous diplomatic
campaign since 1993. Though Burmese
junta had removed
some of the landmines set by Nasaka, but most of them
remained un-removed despite heavy
pressure from
again planted landmines along the
Burma-Bangladesh
border. But, Bangladesh
Government had removed by its
own arrangement, the landmines set
by Nasaka in its
territory, said BRCT (
for Tranma
Victims).#
Editor
Kaladan Press Network