Police and members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested a leader of Myanmar rebel group ‘Arakan Army’ from Islampur area in Rajasthali upazila on October 14, at about 3:00am, according to Wahidullah Sarker, officer-in-charge of Rajasthali Police Station.
The prisoners’ vehicle –transporting prisoners from Buthidaung jail to Maungdaw district justice court – drives speedy inside Maungdaw municipal area which makes public panic for fear of accident, said U Amman, an elder from Maungdaw.
Rohingya villagers from Maungdaw south had seen Army personnel in group along the Aley Than Kyaw- Tha Win Chang highway and east side of highway road on October 5, at morning, Hussain, a village headman from Aley Than Kyaw said.
Maungdaw district admin officer – U Khin Maung Lwin- forced Kyauk Hlai Khar village tract market owner to pay him 23 million kyat for permission to re-build the market into concrete on October 4, said an officer from the office who denied to be named.
Border guard Bangladesh (BGB) and police arrested two Burmese drug smugglers in different place on October 6 and 4, said Jafor Ahamed, a local from Teknaf said.