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RAB says search for the missing weapons will
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Firearms looted from Teknaf Ansar camp recovered, three
arrested
Updated at 08:29 PM
January 10, 2017
RAB personnel recovered several firearms and ammunition
looted from the Teknaf Ansar camp last year from Naikhyangchhari, Bandarban in
the early hours of Tuesday.
Lieutenant Colonel of RAB 7 Ashikur Rahman said they had
arrested two Rohingya men Khairul Amin and Master Abul Kalam Azad – from
outside the Kutupalong camp with the firearms around 9pm on Monday.
Later, another Rohingya man Hasan Ahmed was arrested
from Teknaf over the Ansar camp attack.
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RAB says search for the missing weapons will
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two more days. Dhaka Tribune
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Based on their statement, RAB conducted a drive at several
hills of Naikhangchhari upzila and recovered a sub-machine gun, six magazines,
one Chinese rifle and one M2 Chinese rifle.
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RAB says search for the missing weapons will
continue for
two more days. Dhaka Tribune
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Robbers attacked Ansar personnel at the Rohingya refugee
camp at Nayapara on May 13 last year. They shot dead the outpost’s in-charge Md
Ali Hossain, 55, and looted two sub-machine guns, nine rifles and ammunition
from the camp’s armoury.
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RAB says search for the missing weapons will
continue for
two more days. Dhaka Tribune
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Five firearms looted from the Ansar camp have been recovered
so far.
RAB chief Benazir Ahmed and Ansar Director General Mizanur
Rahman told the media at the site that the law enforcers would continue their
operation for two more days.
Thousands of Rohingyas are living in two refugee camps in
Cox’s Bazar. Many more are believed to be scattered across Bangladesh.
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RAB says search for the missing weapons will
continue for
two more days. Dhaka Tribune
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The Rohingya has been a contentious bilateral issue between
Bangladesh and Myanmar.
Dhaka says many Rohingyas are involved in criminal
activities. In 2015, the expatriate welfare minister said some 50,000 Rohingyas
were staying abroad with Bangladeshi passports.
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