Eight more BGP members fled to BD, bringing total to 103

Eight more members of Myanmar’s Border Guard Police (BGP) have fled to Bangladesh amid clashes between the Myanmar military and the armed rebel group Arakan Army.

With this, the number of BGP members who took shelter in Bangladesh stood at 103, reports UNB.

Shariful Islam, public relations officer of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), said 103 BGP members have so far entered Bangladesh through the Tumbru border in the Naikhangchhari upazila of Bandarban district with arms and ammunition amid the ongoing clashes inside Myanmar.

The BGB members disarmed them and took them to a safe shelter, he said.