Amid the ongoing tension in Myanmar, a sense of anxiety grips the Bangladeshi nationals residing near the border in Bandarban.
Many of them have evacuated their homes, seeking refuge in neighboring villages or staying with relatives for safety.
Earlier in the day, a case was filed over the death of two people - a Bangladeshi woman and a Rohingya man - who were killed after a mortar shell, reportedly fired by Myanmar, fell on the Ghumdum border in Bandarban on Monday.
The case was filed with Naikhongchhari police station, said Saikat Shaheen, Superintendent of Police (SP) of Bandarban on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, a mortar shell from Myanmar landed across the border in Bandarban's Ghumdum union and hit the window of a house Tuesday morning.
Confirming the incident, Ghumdum Union Parishad Chairman AKM Jahangir Aziz said: “From 6am on Tuesday, gunshots were heard in the Myanmar Border Guard Police (BGP) Battalion Camp-2 area near the Ghumdum border.”
Meanwhile, as many as 149 more Myanmar Border Guard Police (BGP) and army personnel have fled to Bangladesh amid clashes between the Myanmar military and the armed rebel group, Arakan Army.
With them, the number of Myanmar security forces who have taken shelter in Bangladesh so far stands at 264.
Shariful Islam, public relations officer (PRO) of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), said that the BGP and army personnel have entered Bangladesh through the Tumbru border in Naikhangchhari upazila of Bandarban district with arms and ammunition.
The BGB disarmed them and took them to a safe shelter, he said.
The BGB PRO said members of the BGP started taking shelter in Bangladesh since Sunday morning.
The Arakan Army is the well-trained and well-armed military wing of the Rakhine ethnic minority movement, which seeks autonomy from Myanmar’s central government.
It is a member of the armed ethnic group alliance that recently gained strategic territory in Myanmar’s northeast.