Army man killed, two injured in Bandarban KNF ambush
An Army personnel was killed and two others, including a junior commissioned officer, were severely injured in an ambush allegedly carried out by ethnic armed group Kuki-Chin National Front in a remote Bandarban area on Friday afternoon.
The police confirmed the death of Corporal Mohammad Rafique of the Bangladesh Army and said that injured JCO warrant officer Idris Ali and sepahi Milon were flown to the Combined Military Hospitals in Chattogram for treatment
Officials in Dhaka and Chittagong Hill Tracts said that the incident took place near a passenger shed on the road near Paliprangsha Para Army Camp at about 4:20pm.
The Directorate of Inter Services Public Relation (ISPR) made no comment or issued any statement till 10:00pm on FRiday over the causalities.
Ruma Police Station officer-in-charge Md Shahjahan said that they learned that the KNF ambushed an army patrol team in the afternoon, resulting in the causalities.
None, however, claimed responsibility of the attack.
The incident took place a day after a Bandarban court on Thursday remanded 52 suspected KNF members and sympathisers in police custody for interrogation for two days in the case filed over the abduction of Sonali Bank manager Nezam Uddin from a mosque at Ruma on April 2 in an attempt to loot the bank vault.
The court also allowed the investigators to interrogate a pregnant female suspect at jail gate.
On April 2, the KNF launched an attack to loot Tk 1.5 crore from the vault of Sonali Bank’s Ruma upazila branch and abducted the branch manager Nezam Uddin in the aftermath of their failure to loot the cash. They, however, looted at least 14 firearms and over 400 bullets, injuring members of law enforcement agencies.
Nezam was rescued on April 4 through a negotiation by the Rapid Action Battalion.
Later on, on April 3, the KNF also looted Tk 17 lakh in cash from the Sonali Bank and Krishi Bank branches in Thanchi upazila of Bandarban.
The security forces have so far arrested 58 people in their joint operation in connection with the incidents. The police have separately arrested 14 others.
Police officials in Bandarban said that a total of nine cases were filed with the Ruma and Thanchi police following the robberies, arms looting, and abduction in April 2–3.
KNF media wing Colonel Solomon in their unverified social media page said on Friday that so far none of their armed members have been arrested by joint forces. It also claimed some innocent people who have no link to the KNF were arrested.
Those arrested people include college and university students, minors, pregnant women and breastfeeding women, government and private sector employees, farmers and religious leaders.
On March 13, 2023, another army man was killed and two others were injured after armed activists of the Kuki-Chin National Army (KNA) opened fire on the army personnel in Bandarban.
The deceased was identified as Nazim Uddin, a master warrant, son of late Shamsher Ali, he hailed from Ghagatpara village of Rangpur sadar.
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