Narinjara News
Two Burmese
nationals held in
On receiving information that a gang of criminals equipped
with heavy firearms entered Sualock area crossing the
On suspicion, the BDR challenged Hla
Tun and U Tha Sein and arrested them after recovering some Burmese and
Bangladeshi currency from them yesterday.
The BDR handed them over to police for interrogation without
any firearms as they might receive false information.
Meanwhile, indigenous people of Tarachha,
Baghmara, Sualock and
traders of Ruma Bazar
received letters demanding toll from extortionists.
Sources said criminals, having been paid ransom after the
abduction of hotelier Hasan Mahmud
Bablu last month, have become desperate. The
criminals are now trying to establish supremacy in the area, they added.
For many years the Bandarban
districts has been popular with the traders hawking in
clothes, calendars and some other Burmese herbal medicines crossing the
border.
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In the back drop of law and orders turmoil situation, the
security has been made tighter than before. In that, many
innocent Arakanese who entered the area fleeing from