BD troops on alert along Assam border

Published September 4, 2005

DHAKA, Sept 3: The government of Bangladesh on Friday enforced a red alert along the Chittagong Hill Tracts’ frontier with India to check an expected infiltration of activists of the United Liberation Front of Assam following New Delhi’s crackdown on the separatist outfit.

An official of the Bangladesh Rifles told newsmen in Rangamati that troops had been directed to stop ULFA guerillas from entering Bangladesh through the 325-kilometre frontier between India, Myanmar and Bangladesh.

ARMS SEIZED: Baangladeshi troops in a raid recovered a cache of AK-47 rifles and bullets from a dense forest in Bandarban district.

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