<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Bangladesh on Sunday summoned Myanmar Ambassador to Bangladesh Aung Kyaw Moe for the fourth time and lodged a strong protest over the recent incidents along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Ambassador was summoned at the office of Md. Najmul Huda, the Director General (South East Asia wing) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to lodge the protest, said a MoFA source.  </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Earlier, Dhaka reiterated its “deep concern” over the recent incidents of Myanmar’s mortar shelling, indiscriminate aerial firing in the bordering areas, and air space violations.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">On Saturday, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said the government is trying to resolve the issues with Myanmar peacefully and diplomatically but a complaint will be lodged to the United Nations regarding mortar shelling at the border if necessary.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He said the Bangladesh Foreign Ministry has warned them (Myanmar) several times but they didn’t keep their promise. “We have lodged a strong protest over casualties from Friday’s mortar shelling by Myanmar at Tombru border,” he added.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Myanmar’s internal conflicts should remain within its border but their forces are crossing the border time and again and injuring Bangladeshi nationals,” said Asaduzzaman.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He said Myanmar Border Guard Police (BGP) is continuously being contacted about this issue and Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has remained alert to prevent illegal entry of Rohingyas.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On Friday night, a 17-year-old-Rohingya boy named Mohammad Iqbal was killed and five others were injured as a mortar shell fired by the Myanmar army exploded at the Zero Point Rohingya Camp close to the international border in Tombru, Bandarban.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The deceased and injured were all residents of the Zero Point Rohingya Camp, known as the camp that is closest to the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, in No Man's Land.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Four mortar shells landed in succession at the Rohingya camp around 8pm.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Earlier, an indigenous youth named Anganthowai Tanchangya was grievously injured in a landmine explosion along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Naikhongchhari upazila of Bandarban on Friday noon. Locals said it is the Myanmar army that has mined the area.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Twelve mortar shells have been fired by the Myanmar army on Bangladesh territory so far. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>