Criminals Clash in Bandarban

3 killed, bodies yet to be recovered

11 October 2009, 17:00 PM

Our Correspondent, Bandarban

Three people were killed in a gunfight between two factions of a criminal group at Kamok Para village in Ruma upazila of Bandarban hill district early yesterday. On information, police and security forces rushed to the spot but could not recover any body until yesterday noon. Search for the bodies in nearby deep forest was continuing as of filing of this report at 7:30pm. Some villagers however identified the dead as Mong Ba U Marma, Aong Ching Marma and Rowal Kum Bowm. They are locally known as agents of a "Burmese armed gang",they added. UP member Cha Thui Prue quoted an elderly woman of Kamork village as saying that she and some other indigenous people saw some armed men dragging three bodies. According to a source, some workers of Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS) and United People's Democratic Front (UPDF) have recently formed an armed group named Chittagong Hill Tracts Nationalist Front (CHTNF) in collaboration with Rakhine criminals from Myanmar. However, PCJSS central leader KS Mong Marma told The Daily Star that such allegations are completely baseless. Local UPDF leader Choton Tanchangya told this correspondent over cellphone that they are not involved with any criminal activities.