Myanmar expresses regret over shelling inside Bangladesh border

Myanmar has officially expressed regret over shelling inside the Bangladesh border.

At the same time, Myanmar's Border Guard Police (BGP) and Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have agreed to prevent border infiltration and drug smuggling.

Lt. Colonel Sheikh Khalid Mohammad Iftekhar, leader of BGB delegation revealed the matter after a five-hour long flag meeting on Sunday.

He said, Myanmar has officially expressed regret for some issues. They said that this will not happen in the future.

Before this, the meeting between the delegations of the two countries started at the conference room of BGB's 'Southan Point' at Shahpari Island in Teknaf around 10 am. The meeting ended around 3:30 pm.

According to BGB, a flag meeting was held between the delegations of Bangladesh and Myanmar at around 9:30 am on Monday at Shahpari Island.

Last August, massive shelling and mortar shelling erupted between the country's army and the Arakan Army, an insurgent group in Rakhine state, inside Myanmar on the Tumbru border in Naikshyongchari.

On August 28, two mortar shells fired by Myanmar landed in the territory of Bangladesh. Bangladesh strongly protested by summoning the Myanmar ambassador several times over the casualties in the border firing.