{"id":56556,"date":"2024-02-05T11:55:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T11:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/2-killed-in-bangladesh-as-fighting-rages-on-myanmar-border-police\/"},"modified":"2024-02-05T11:55:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T11:55:05","slug":"2-killed-in-bangladesh-as-fighting-rages-on-myanmar-border-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/2-killed-in-bangladesh-as-fighting-rages-on-myanmar-border-police\/","title":{"rendered":"2 killed in Bangladesh as fighting rages on Myanmar border: police"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At least two people were killed in Bangladesh on Monday after mortar shells fired from Myanmar during clashes there landed in a village across the border, police said.<\/p>\n
Parts of Myanmar near the 270-kilometre (167-mile) border with Bangladesh have seen frequent clashes since November when rebel Arakan Army fighters ended a ceasefire that had largely held since a 2021 coup.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe two were killed at around 2:15pm (0815 GMT) in the firing at Jalpaitoli village,\u201d local police chief Abdul Mannan told AFP<\/em>.<\/p>\n
Police said a Bangladeshi woman, named 48-year-old Hosne Ara, and an unnamed ethnic Rohingya man had been killed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were sitting in the kitchen\u2026 when a mortar hit the place,\u201d Ara\u2019s daughter-in-law said, too distraught to give her name.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was serving lunch to the Rohingya man who was hired by the family for farm work when they were hit.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bangladesh Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Sunday said that border police officers from neighbouring Myanmar\u2019s Rakhine state had \u201centered our territory for self-protection\u201d ahead of advancing AA fighters.<\/p>\n