Narinjara News
List of landmine deaths
on Bangladesh-Burma border
Cox’s Bazar, July 20: A Bangladesh local
authority has been collecting the names of people killed by landmines that had
been planted by the Burmese army, said a report of the daily Saiket, a Cox’sbazar district
base newspaper, on July 17.
The number of deaths from landmines in the
According to present record, 16 people have been killed by landmines on the
Most of the victims were woodcutters and farmers, who were killed in landmine
explosions while they were working in the deep forest of the border area.
The paper said that the Burmese army has planted landmines in the border-area
since 1997 and they continue to do so today.
The landmines have also killed a number of wild animals, but it is impossible
to collect of a list of those animals, said the paper. #
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