The Border Guard Bangladesh has rescued two Bangladeshi teenage boys in the Keruntali area under Teknaf upazila in Cox鈥檚 Bazar while they were allegedly being trafficked to Myanmar by Rohingyas.
The BGB also arrested one of the alleged traffickers, Md Rashed, 18, of Block-C of Kutupalong Rohingya Camp number 1 in Cox鈥檚 Bazar鈥檚 Ukhiya upazila during the rescue operation in the Keruntali area Monday evening, said a Battalion 2 BGB press release signed by its commander Lieutenant Colonel Ashikur Rahman.
The rescued teens are Mahim, 15 and Sohel, 16, both from the Laldighipar area in Cox鈥檚 Bazar.
The BGB, in its release, said that an organised group of human traffickers had been on the prowl near the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Teknaf.
It said that they, on Monday, acting on a tip-off about human trafficking through the Naf River border in the Keruntali area, launched a raid there.
鈥楽ensing the presence of BGB members, a suspicious group of people fled the scene while the BGB was able to arrest a youth, who is an active member of the human trafficking ring,鈥� the BGB press release said.
The victims were rescued and sent to the Teknaf police station to be handed over to their families.
