Rohingya boy dies in mine explosion inside Myanmar

Staff reporter

Published: October 3, 2022, 02:32 PM

Rohingya boy dies in mine explosion inside Myanmar

A Rohingya teen has been killed and another was critically injured in a landmine explosion inside Myanmar along Bangladesh border.

 

The deceased is--Omar Farooq, 16, of Zero Point Rohingya Camp, known as the camp that is closest to the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, in no man's land.

 

The injured is Md Sahabullah, 30, is from the same camp, said Md Alam, member of Tombru union of Naikhongchhari upazila.

 

The explosion occurred at 5.20am on Monday when Omar and Sahabullah went to Myanmar reportedly to smuggle drugs into Bangladesh.

 

On 16 September, a Rohingya boy was killed and five others injured as a mortar shell fired by the Myanmar army exploded at  Zero Point Rohingya Camp.

 

The deceased was identified as Mohammad Iqbal of the camp.

 

On the same day, another Bangladeshi youth was seriously injured in a landmine explosion along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Naikhyangchhari upazila of Bandarban.

 

The injured was Anganthowai Tanchangya, 22, a resident of Ghumdhum union of the upazila.

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