By Takaloo
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Teknaf: A refugee woman was arrested with three guns and several bullets on Thursday in Nayapara Refugee Camp in Teknaf in southeastern Bangladesh, said a police official from the camp.
"The woman was arrested with three "Karta Rifles" and more than two dozen bullets yesterday afternoon, when paramilitary forces from Ansars were patrolling the camp for security and stopped her on suspicion when she was entering the camp with a heavy blue traveling bag," said the police officer on condition of anonymity.
The woman was identified as 25-year-old Nur Ayesha, a registered refugee from Block-B in Nayapara Camp. She is a divorcee with a two-year-old daughter.
According to the source, the guns were owned by her brother-in-law, Salim Ullah, an unregistered refugee who has been engaging in cross-border robberies along the Bangladesh - Burma border.
She was reportedly sent to the Cox's Bazar police station around 4:00 pm yesterday for further interrogation after being briefly detained in the camp's police station. The main suspect in the case, Salim Ullah, is still at large.
According to border sources, armed robberies have been rampant along the Naff River, the flow of which demarcates the border between Bangladesh and Burma, and in Maungdaw District on the border since mid-2009.
More than fifty robberies have been recorded by the Burmese police and eight robberies, according to the refugees, have happened in the Leda unofficial refugee camp in Teknaf on the Bangladesh side.
There are at least two gangs of armed robbers, consisting of an estimated 20 to 30 members each, committing the cross-border robberies in Bangladesh and Burma.
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"The woman was arrested with three "Karta Rifles" and more than two dozen bullets yesterday afternoon, when paramilitary forces from Ansars were patrolling the camp for security and stopped her on suspicion when she was entering the camp with a heavy blue traveling bag," said the police officer on condition of anonymity.
The woman was identified as 25-year-old Nur Ayesha, a registered refugee from Block-B in Nayapara Camp. She is a divorcee with a two-year-old daughter.
According to the source, the guns were owned by her brother-in-law, Salim Ullah, an unregistered refugee who has been engaging in cross-border robberies along the Bangladesh - Burma border.
She was reportedly sent to the Cox's Bazar police station around 4:00 pm yesterday for further interrogation after being briefly detained in the camp's police station. The main suspect in the case, Salim Ullah, is still at large.
According to border sources, armed robberies have been rampant along the Naff River, the flow of which demarcates the border between Bangladesh and Burma, and in Maungdaw District on the border since mid-2009.
More than fifty robberies have been recorded by the Burmese police and eight robberies, according to the refugees, have happened in the Leda unofficial refugee camp in Teknaf on the Bangladesh side.
There are at least two gangs of armed robbers, consisting of an estimated 20 to 30 members each, committing the cross-border robberies in Bangladesh and Burma.
http://www.narinjara.com/details.asp?id=2766
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