During the Home Affairs Advisor’s visit, 19 Bangladeshis were abducted at the Myanmar border. While the Home Affairs Advisor was monitoring the situation at the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, armed terrorists kidnapped 19 persons, including forest workers and laborers from the Forest Department in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf district.
During the Home Affairs Advisor’s: The kidnapping took place on Monday (December 30) at around 10 a.m. from the Jadimura hills in Hnila Union, Teknaf Upazila. Sheikh Ehsan Uddin, the Teknaf Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO), corroborated this information.
Three of the abducted are forest workers, while the remaining 16 are laborers. Their identities have yet to be established.
Sheikh Ehsan Uddin reported that on Monday morning, 19 Forest Department employees traveled to the Jadimura hills in Hnila, Teknaf, to plant saplings. According to the Forest Department’s Range Officer, members of a bandit gang held them at gunpoint before abducting them and carrying them deep into the hills. After hearing the news, the Forest Department, police, and residents launched a rescue effort in the highlands to find the abductees.
Abdur Rashid, the Range Officer of Teknaf’s Forest Department, revealed that the abductions took place when the department was conducting cleanup activities. After hearing the news, police, APBn, RAB, and local villagers initiated a rescue effort in the hills.
When contacted, Teknaf Model Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Muhammad Gias Uddin stated, “I have heard about the matter, but law enforcement agencies are working on it.”
Meanwhile, retired Lieutenant General Mohammad Jahangir Alam Chowdhury, advisor to the Ministry of Home Affairs, was examining the Teknaf section of the Bangladesh-Myanmar border when the event occurred.
