Border forces to meet today

Amid tension along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Bandarban, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) will hold a sector commander-level flag meeting with their Myanmar counterpart at Maungdaw in Myanmar today.
Cox's Bazar sector commander of BGB Col Farid Hasan will lead a delegation of 20-22 members at the meeting where the Bangladesh side will raise the issue of Myanmar Border Guard Police's unprovoked attack on a BGB patrol team on May 28, killing its member nayek Mizanur Rahman.
Devising ways to ease tension along the border and smuggling of narcotics are also on the agenda of BGB, said Maj Mifthaur Rahman, second-in-command of BGB 17 Battalion of Cox's Bazar.  
A tense situation has been prevailing along Naikkhangchhari of Bandarban since Mizanur was killed in the BGP firing.
BGP members had also taken away the body intruding into Bangladesh territory.
On May 30, Myanmar border guards attacked another BGB team when it neared the border searching for Mizanur. A gun battle then took place between the two sides.
Myanmar finally handed over Mizanur's body to BGB the following day as the foreign ministry summoned the Myanmar ambassador in Bangladesh twice demanding the body and withdrawal of the army Myanmar had deployed along the border.
After the May 28 incident, Myanmar deployed army to stand guard with its border police along its border with Bangladesh while BGB called for reinforcement with heavy weapons.
Meanwhile, 40 to 50 families from four bordering villages -- Jamchhari, Phultoli, Phultolir Matha and Achhartoli -- have not yet returned to their houses, reported our Cox's Bazar correspondent. They fled the villages hearing firing of mortar shells and gunshots in Myanmar across the border in Naikkhangchhari.
They are not feeling safe, said local union parishad member Ali Hossain yesterday.
The shooting, however, took place inside the Myanmar territory and it did not affect Bangladeshis in the bordering areas.