4 found dead after Rohingya trawler capsizes in Naf, several including BGB member still missing

THE BUSINESS STANDARD
TBS Report
22 March, 2025

Earlier, 25 Rohingya refugees were rescued alive after their vessel went down near Shah Porir Dwip 

Naf River. File Photo: TBS

Four bodies have been found floating in the Naf River following the capsize of a trawler carrying Rohingyas, who were trying to illegally enter Bangladesh from Myanmar through Teknaf. 

According to Teknaf Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Sheikh Ehsan Uddin, locals this evening (22 March) reported seeing the bodies of four people floating in the waters of the Naf River near Shah Porir Dwip and Damdamia estuary.

နတ်မြစ်တွင် စက်လှေ ၁ စီး နစ်မြုပ်ပြီး ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ၁၀ ဦးနှင့် BGB တပ်ဖွဲ့ဝင် ၁ ဦး ပျောက်ဆုံးနေ

DVB
March 24, 2025 

Photo : RK News Desk၊ Courtesy

ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်ကနေ ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံ တက္ကနဖ်မြို့နယ်ဘက်ကို တိမ်းရှောင်လာကြတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာ စက်လှေတစီးဟာ မတ် ၂၂ ရက် အစောပိုင်းက နတ်မြတ်အတွင်း နစ်မြုပ်ခဲ့ပြီး စက်လှေပေါ် ပါလာတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ၁၀ ယောက်နဲ့ ကယ်ဆယ်ရေးပြုလုပ်နေတဲ့ ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ် နယ်ခြားစောင့် (BGB) တပ်ဖွဲ့ဝင်တယောက် ပျောက်ဆုံးတယ်လို့ ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်အခြေစိုက် သတင်းဌာနတွေမှာ ရေးကြပါတယ်။

BGB refutes rumours of 33 missing personnel in Naf River

Dhaka Tribume
BSS
Publish : 23 Mar 2025,

Rescue operations for the other Rohingyas, including the currently missing BGB member, are continuing  

File photo: Naf River flows along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border region in Teknaf, Cox`s Bazar. Photo: Dhaka Tribune

The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a statement on Sunday confirmed that the news of missing 33 Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel spreading on some social networking sites was a rumour.

"Various social media platforms are spreading false information that 33 BGB members have gone missing in the Naf River while on a mission in the past two days," the statement said.

4 bodies recovered after Rohingya boat capsizes off Teknaf, one BGB member missing

daily observer
Observer Online Report
Published : Sunday, 23 March, 2025  

Four bodies, including a child, were recovered from the Bay of Bengal in Teknaf after a boat carrying Rohingyas drowned while attempting to cross into Bangladesh from Myanmar.

There was also a Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) member on the boat.
 

Several people, including the BGB member, are still missing.

 

Bangladesh: End Rohingya Refugee Pushbacks

SCOOP World
Sunday, 24 November 2024,
Press Release: Fortify Rights 

(COX’S BAZAR, November 19, 2024)–The Interim Government of Bangladesh should immediately stop the forced return of Rohingya fleeing deadly violence and ongoing genocide in Rakhine State, Myanmar, Fortify Rights said today. A new investigation by Fortify Rights documents how the Bangladesh border guard forces continue to push Rohingya back to Myanmar.

“Bangladesh’s interim government has promised to turn a new page for the country and respect human rights after a decade of brutal abuses under Sheikh Hasina’s government,” said Zaw Win, Human Rights Specialist at Fortify Rights. “The interim government’s commitment to human rights should include protecting the rights of Rohingya who are fleeing genocidal violence in Myanmar. Bangladesh should allow Rohingya to cross safely into Bangladesh and formally recognize their rights as refugees.”

BGB sends back 37 Rohingyas to Myanmar

THE BUSINESS STANDARD
TBS Report
13 October, 2024

File photo: The Guardian

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members sent back 37 Rohingyas, including children, when they tried to enter Bangladeshi territory from Myanmar by crossing the Naf River in Teknaf, Cox's Bazar last night (12 October).

The incident happened at around 9pm yesterday at the Keruntoli border point under Sadar union in Teknaf, said Lt Col Mohiuddin Ahmed, the commander of BGB's Teknaf-based 2nd Battalion.

How Should Bangladesh Handle Myanmar’s Fleeing Soldiers?

THEIDIPLOMAT
By Shahariar Sadat and Arafat Reza
March 15, 2024

More and more Myanmar troops are seeking refuge in Bangladesh. Dhaka can use this situation to its advantage.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel detain Myanmar Border Guard Police (BGP) and security forces seeking refuge in Cox’s Bazar district in Banglades

On February 6, 264 members of Myanmar’s border and security forces took shelter in Bangladesh to escape heavy fighting between Myanmar’s army and the Arakan Army. They were disarmed by the members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and taken to a safe shelter. Those who sustained critical injuries were given treatment at local hospitals.

All 330 intruders sent back to Myanmar by ship

daily observer
Staff Correspondent
Published : Friday, 16 February, 2024

No Myanmar citizen will be allowed to enter BD: BGB DG

All 330 Myanmar nationals, including 302 Border Guard Police (BGP)

members, four BGP family members, two army personnel, 18 immigration officials and four civilians, who intruded into Bangladesh territory following escalation of fighting in Myanmar, were escorted by the BGB and handed over to the BGP, a BGB press release said.

ရခိုင်တိုက်ပွဲကြောင့် ပြေးဝင်လာသူများအနက် မွတ်ဆလင်လက်နက်ကိုင် ၂၃ ဦးကို ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်ရဲတပ်ဖွဲ့ ဖမ်းဆီးထား

DMG
ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ ၁၀ 

 
ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်-မြန်မာ နယ်စပ် ရခိုင်ဘက်ခြမ်းမှ တိုက်ပွဲများကြောင့် ပြေးဝင်လာသည့် မွတ်ဆလင်လက်နက်ကိုင် ၂၃ ဦးကို ဖမ်းဆီးထားပြီး ကော့ဘဇားရှိ အူခီးယာရဲစခန်းတွင် တရားစွဲဆိုထားကြောင်း BDNews24 သတင်းတစ်ရပ်တွင် ဖော်ပြထားသည်။

ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်ရှိ မွတ်ဆလင်ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းတွင် မှတ်ပုံတင်ထားသည့် ဒုက္ခသည်များသည် မြန်မာဘက်သို့ မည်ကဲ့သို့ ဝင်ရောက်သွားပြီး ယခုကဲ့သို့ လက်နက်များနှင့် ပြန်ဝင်လာသည်ကို ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ် ရဲတပ်ဖွဲ့က စုံစမ်းစစ်ဆေးလျက်ရှိသည်ဟု သတင်းတွင် ဖော်ပြချက်အရ သိရသည်။

Border guards who fled Myanmar tell of losing contact with commanders

Radio Free Asia
Sharif Khiam and Abdur Rahman
Bandarban and Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
2024.02.09

Over 300 who crossed into Bangladesh have asked for assistance in returning to their homes.

Bangladeshis deliver an injured Rohingya who tried to cross the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh to members of the Border Guard Bangladesh in Ukhia, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Feb. 6, 2024. Abdur Rahman/BenarNews

 

Myanmar border guards and soldiers fled into Bangladesh earlier this week after losing contact with their commanders during fierce fighting in Rakhine state, an interpreter present during their conversation with Bangladesh officials told BenarNews on Friday.

4 Rohingyas held near Patgram border

The Daily Star
UNB, Lalmonirhat
Sun Feb 11, 2024 

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained four Rohingya refugees near Lalmonirhat's Patgram border on Friday afternoon.

 

The detainees are Abdullah, 24, his wife Sharifa Begum, 19, their daughter, 27-month-old Rinus Bibi, and Amena Begum, 15.

Ferdous Wahid, officer-in-charge (OC) of Patgram Police Station, said the Rohingyas were roaming near the corridor post area of Patgram upazila's Dahagram Union border on Friday afternoon.

Police recover bullet-ridden body near Ukhiya border after 2 days

Dhaka Tribune
Tribune Desk
Publish : 10 Feb 2024, 

• BGB helped in the process
• Locals spotted the body

Police recovered a man's bullet-ridden body from the Rahmaterbil area of Cox's Bazar's Ukhiya upazila, as it had been lying along the border for the last two days.

Ukhiya police station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Shamim Hossain said that they recovered the unidentified body with the help of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on Saturday.

BGB detains four Rohingyas from Lalmonirhat border

daily observer
Published : Saturday, 10 February, 2024

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have detained four Rohingya refugees from Lalmonirhat's Patgram border on Friday afternoon.

The detained are Abdullah, 24, his wife Sharifa Begum, 19, and their daughter 27-months-old Rinus Bibi and Amena Begum, 15.

Bangladeshis fret over unconfirmed return of Rohingya militant Nabi Hossain amid Myanmar conflict

bdnews24.com
Golam Mortuja Antu
Published : 9 Feb 2024, 

After the arrest of 23 armed Rohingya trespassers, locals speculate the ethnic Muslims are involved in the ongoing fighting in Myanmar

The arrest of 23 armed Rohingya trespassers has fuelled speculation that the ethnic Muslims have engaged in the ongoing conflict between the Myanmar military and various rebel factions.

နယ်စပ်ဖြတ်ကျော် ပစ်ခတ်မှုအတွက် ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်က မြန်မာကို ပြစ်တင်ရှုတ်ချ

ဧရာဝတီ
by Muktadir Rashid
7 February 2024

ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်၊ ကောက်ဘဇား၊ အူကီယာသို့ ပြေးဝင်လာသော မြန်မာစစ်ကောင်စီနောက်လိုက် ၂၆၄ ဦးကို ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ် နယ်ခြားစောင့်တပ် (BGB) က ခေါ်လာစဉ် / Mohibbulla Mohib

 

ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ် နိုင်ငံခြားရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာနသည် ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ ၆ ရက်နေ့တွင် မြန်မာသံအမတ်ကို ဆင့်ခေါ်ပြီးဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ ၅ ရက်နေ့က ဘန်ဒါဘန်တွင် လူ နှစ်ဦး သေဆုံးစေသည့် နယ်စပ်ဖြတ်ကျော် ပစ်ခတ်မှုကို ပြစ်တင်ရှုတ်ချသည်။

Another 116 from Myanmar including border guards, army personnel enter Bangladesh: BGB

CLICK ITTEFAQ
Click Ittefaq Desk
Publish : 06 Feb 2024

photo collected

 

Another 13 members of Myanmar's Border Guard Police (BGP) have taken shelter in Bangladesh fleeing their posts amid reports of heavy gunfights between the government troops and the rebels in the junta-run country.

'Not a single Rohingya would be allowed to enter Bangladesh'

daily observer
Published : Tuesday, 6 February, 2024
Observer Correspondent

Newly appointed Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Director General Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui speaks to local correspondents after paying respects at the mausoleum of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Tungipara in Gopalganj district early Tuesday (February 6) afternoon.

No Rohingya refugee would be allowed to enter Bangladesh afresh in the wake of ongoing tense situation in sequel to internal conflicts in Myanmar, said newly appointed Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Director General Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui on Tuesday (February 6).

IGP: Police working with BGB to ensure border security

Dhaka Tribune
UNB
Publish : 06 Feb 2024,

Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun speaking at an event in Dhaka on Tuesday, February 6, 2024. Photo: Courtesy

Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun On Tuesday detailed the collaborative efforts of Bangladesh Police, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), and local administration to maintain law and order at the Ghumdum border in Bandarban, following directives from the government.

264 Myanmar border, security force members now in Bangladesh: BGB

Dhaka Tribune
Tribune Desk
Publish : 06 Feb 2024,

Myanmar Border Guard Police (BGP) members are seen talking to Border Guard Bangladesh members in Bangladesh after seeking refuge due to an attack by rebels on February 4, 2024. Photo: Dhaka Tribune

 

A total of 264 members of Myanmar's border and security forces are now taking shelter in Bangladesh amid clashes between the Myanmar military and the armed rebel group, Arakan Army, Bangladesh Border Guard (BGB) has said.

Won't allow Rohingya to enter Bangladesh anymore: BGB chief

The Daily Star
Star Digital Report
Tue Feb 6, 2024

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Director General Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui today said they would no longer allow Rohingya refugees to enter Bangladesh territory.