Myanmar border guards take refuge in Bangladesh

At least 95 soldiers of Myanmar's paramilitary Border Guard Police (BGP) have taken refuge in Bangladesh fleeing their posts amid reports of heavy gunfights between the government troops and the rebels in the junta-run country.

“A total of 95 BGP personnel took shelter in Bangladesh until this morning,” Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Public Relations Officer Md Shariful Islam confirmed BSS. 

Earlier, till Sunday midnight, 68 BGP personnel took shelter in Bangladesh while fourteen of them crossed the border with bullet wounds and were being treated at different hospitals including health facilities in Rohingya camps, official sources said.

BGP soldiers were kept under BGB custody in Cox's Bazar while the weapons they carried were deposited in BGB cache.

The official said many of the soldiers came to Bangladesh territory in combat uniform and weapons while others were in their plainclothes leaving as well their arms back home.

Necessary steps in this regard are underway, the BGB official said.

-BSS