Besides deploying additional troops, a programme was launched to raise awareness among the people along the border against Rohingya intrusion. Reuters has reported that Myanmar Army confirmed death of 130 Rohingya in recent drives responding to coordinated attacks on three border posts on Oct 9 that killed nine police officers. BGB official Jahid told bdnews24.com a group of 80 Rohingyas were stopped at the border and pushed back to Myanmar when they tried to enter Bangladesh through Hnila border on Tuesday morning. But this (Tuesday's) attempt was the largest after the attack on Myanmar border check post by suspected Rohingya militants," he said. The bloodshed by Myanmar Army is the most serious since hundreds were killed in communal clashes in the western Myanmar state of Rakhine in 2012, Reuters said in its report.

Source: bd News24 November 16, 2016 23:15 UTC