Boat communication resumed on the Teknaf鈥揝t Martins route after seven days with Border Guard Bangladesh and Coast Guard escorting to ensure security amid firing from the Myanmar side.
On Thursday afternoon, more than two hundred hotel workers, labourers and common people reached Teknaf in three trawlers on an alternative route from St Martins without using Naf River.聽
At the same time 300 people left Teknaf on four trawlers for St Martins Island.
Mujibur Rahman, chairman of St Martins Union Parishad said, 鈥楾hree trawlers crossed the Bay of Bengal and went to Teknaf at risk. Sound of gunfire is coming from Myanmar every day.鈥�
Teknaf UNO Md Adnan Chowdhury said that three trawlers arrived at St Martin Island with people at noon. From there, at least two hundred people returned to Teknaf under the security of BGB and Coast Guard members. The trawlers reach the Munderdale Sea coast in Teknaf.
Goods transport to and from St Martins Island by trawlers and boats remained suspended for nearly a week due to repeated shelling from Myanmar on the Teknaf border, leading to a food crisis in the island.
More than 10,000 people were suffering due to a shortage of food as communication with the mainland remained suspended due to firing along the border from the Myanmar side, said the UP chairman Mujibur.
A tense situation has been prevailing along the border between Bandarban鈥檚 Naikhyangchari and Cox鈥檚 Bazar鈥檚 Teknaf amid fierce fighting, skirmishes, and gunfire between the armed forces of the military junta and insurgent groups inside Myanmar since February.
A Bangladeshi woman and a Rohingya man were killed by a shell fired from Myanmar on February 5, while several others sustained injuries from a recent shellfire, prompting the evacuation of border village residents by the government.
Bangladeshi fisherman Hossain Ali, 48, who was injured by a bullet in the river Naf allegedly fired by the Myanmar armed group Arakan Army, died on May 28 while undergoing treatment at Chittagong Medical College Hospital.
