Myanmar Border Guard Police (BGP) Saturday handed over the body of a Bangladesh Border Guard (BGB) member killed in a BGP firing along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border at Naikhonchhari in Bandarban district on Wednesday.
The body of Nayek Mizanur Rahman was handed over to BGB at a flag meeting in Panchhari near the border pillar-52 around 5:45pm, said locals.
Commanding officer of BGB Ramu Battalion-50 Major Tareque received the body, said Dochhari union parishad chairman Abdur Rashid who was present on the occasion.
Mizan went missing amid indiscriminate firing by the BGP members along the Naikhonchhari border on Wednesday morning.
Later, a BGP officer confirmed that a member of the Border Guard Bangladesh was killed by his unit on Wednesday when a clash broke out between the two sides amid rising tension along the border.
After the incident, tension escalated along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border. It further intensified on Friday afternoon when BGP further fired gunshots along Panchhari border in Naikhonchhari, according to UNB.
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