Bangladesh summons Myanmar envoy over border clashes

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh stand watch at the Ghumdhum point on Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh in this file photo from 2017. - Reuters

DHAKA: Bangladesh summoned neighbouring Myanmar's ambassador on Tuesday (Feb 6) to protest the escalating border violence that killed two people on the Bangladeshi side as fighting between Myanmar's rebel forces and its junta regime intensifies.

A Bangladeshi woman and a Rohingya man were killed and a child was injured when a mortar shell from Myanmar hit a border district in Bangladesh on Monday, as junta forces try to quell a bloody rebellion.