At least 68 members of Myanmar\u2019s border police have taken refuge in Bangladesh amid intensifying clashes between the junta\u2019s armed forces and a rebel group inside the Southeast Asian nation, the Bangladesh border force said Sunday. Of the members of Myanmar\u2019s paramilitary Border Guard Police (BGP) who have crossed into Bangladesh, 15 were being provided treatment, said the Bangladesh Border Guard (BGB). \u201cThey (BGP) intruded through the Tumbru border area of Bangladesh in southeastern Bandarban district with weapons. The BGB, however, has disarmed them and taken them in safe refuge\u2026The next course of action (involving sending them back to Myanmar) is underway,\u201d said the BGB in a statement. Their weapons and ammunition are in the BGB\u2019s custody. Another six people who crossed the border into Bangladesh on Sunday were admitted to a hospital in southeastern Cox\u2019s Bazar district who Bangladesh police identified as members of the insurgent group the Rohingya Solidarity Organization (RSO), local\u00a0media reported. Bangladesh\u2019s Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said that Myanmar\u2019s internal conflict spilled over into Bangladesh’s border areas. Following a meeting with China\u2019s ambassador in Dhaka, he told reporters that Bangladesh has sought China’s help to quell the situation along the border. \u201cThe Chinese government has a good relationship with Myanmar. Therefore, we want the Chinese government to help mitigate the conflict inside Myanmar, which has already impacted the Bangladesh border,\u201d he added. Bangladesh has already sheltered around 1.2 million refugees belonging to Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya Muslim community in Cox\u2019s Bazar. The majority of Rohingya living in Bangladesh fled a brutal military crackdown in Rakhine, Myanmar in 2017. Bangladesh’s Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal told reporters in Dhaka that security along the border with Myanmar has been beefed up, including to check for any fresh influx from Myanmar. The situation remains tense inside Bangladesh along the border with Myanmar. Bandarban’s Deputy Commissioner Shah Mujahid Uddin told\u00a0reporters\u00a0that gunshots were also fired in Bangladesh from Myanmar’s Ghumdhum region late Saturday, with the sound of shelling continuing until Sunday. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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