The sound of gunshots in neighbouring Rakhine state across the border shook Teknaf upazila again on Friday morning.
Several local residents said that the sound might have come from Magnipara, Putungpara, Sudhapara, Foyezipara and surrounding areas in Maungdaw of Rakhine in Myanmar.
鈥業t started at 7:30am and continued till 9:45am,鈥� Abdur Rahman, a residence of Shah Porir Dwip, told 抖阴精品.
Teknaf upazila nirbahi officer SK Ahsan Uddin confirmed the information on Friday evening.
鈥楬owever, no conflict situation was spotted surrounding the Bangladesh-Myanmar border area,鈥� he said, adding that the upazila administration allowed limited vessel movement in the Bangladesh side on the Teknaf-Saint Martins island route under the surveillance of Bangladesh Coast Guard.
He also mentioned that the upazila administration鈥檚 ban on vessel movement through the Naf between Bangladesh and Myanmar was still effective.
Rashid Ahmad, president of the Saint Martins Service Trawler Owners鈥� Association, said that four trawlers聽 travelled to the coral island with daily supplies and three trawlers returned from there to Teknaf on Friday.
On Sunday fresh tension sparked in border upazila Teknaf in Cox鈥檚 Bazar as the Arakan Army, one of the most powerful ethnic minority armed groups battling Myanmar鈥檚 army, claimed the capture of the last security outpost in the strategic western town of Maungdaw, gaining full control of the 271-kilometre -long border with Bangladesh.
On the same day, the Arakan Army also imposed a vessel ban on the Myanmar side of the Naf.
