Two killed as mortar shells from Myanmar lands in Bangladesh


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At least two people were killed when mortar shells from the Myanmar side landed across the border in a Bangladeshi village while 95 Burmese paramilitary border guards fled their posts and took refuge in this country in the past two days, officials said on Monday. “One of the two slain people is a Bangladeshi woman while the other is a Rohingya man. They were killed on Sunday in the Japaitali area near the border,” said Shah Mujahid Uddin, Bandarban Deputy Commissioner and Administrative Chief. The police said a 50-year-old woman was serving food to a 58-year-old ethnic Rohingya daily wage...