Bangladesh summons Myanmar envoy after cross-border shooting


A Rohingya refugee carrying a sack walks across a market at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia on January 12, 2026. In Bangladesh's sprawling Rohingya camps of Cox's Bazar, where more than a million refugees forced to flee Myanmar live in squalid conditions, hope is a fragile but persistent force. In rows of bamboo shelters and muddy lanes, refugees who escaped Myanmar nearly a decade ago await developments more than 8,000 kilometres (5,000 miles) away at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, where a genocide case against Myanmar opens on January 12. -- Photo by MH Mustafa / AFP

NEW DELHI/YANGON (Bernama): Bangladesh’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday summoned Myanmar Ambassador U Kyaw Soe Moe to express the former’s deep concern over a recent cross-border firing that left a 12-year-old Bangladeshi girl severely injured.

Bangladesh reminded Myanmar that the "unprovoked firing” near Whykong Union of Teknaf in Cox's Bazar is a blatant violation of international law and a hindrance to good neighbourly relations, according to a statement by Bangladesh Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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