Shawdesh Desk:

The truth about why and how drug smugglers fired shots at a Directorate General of Forces Intelligence officer at Tombru border in Bandarban would be identified and shared, home minister Asaduzzaman Khan said Tuesday.

He was responding to journalists’ questions after attending the Fire Service and Civil Defence Week 2022 programme in Dhaka.

He said that the law enforcing team was conducting a drive against drug traders following information from a detective agency at the no-man’s-land area on Bangladesh-Myanmar border where thousands of Rohingyas live.

On Monday night, an officer of DGFI was shot dead and a Rapid Action Battalion member was wounded while conducting a drive against drug smugglers at Tombru border, ISPR said in a press release earlier on Tuesday.

ISPR, however, did not reveal the names of the DGFI and RAB members yet.

Meanwhile, Sub-inspector Ripon Chowdhury, appointed at Cox’s Bazar Sadar Hospital, told UNB that a RAB member was brought to the hospital at about 10:00pm with critical injury after being shot at the border during a drive.

Assistant sub-inspector of Naikhongchhari police station Joydeb said that they were informed about the firing in Konarpara area near the border but didn’t have information about who was involved.

Some local people claimed that Myanmar insurgent group Al Yaqin members shot at a RAB-15 team at zero point of the border at about 7:00pm on Monday night while they were conducting a drive.