<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>The truth about why and how drug smugglers fired shots at a Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) officer at Tombru border in Bandarban will be identified and shared, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said today.</b></span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">He was responding to journalists’ questions after attending the Fire Service and Civil Defence Week 2022 programme in Dhaka.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">He said the law enforcing team was conducting a drive against drug traders – following information from a detective agency – at the no-man’s-land area on Bangladesh-Myanmar border where thousands of Rohingyas live.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">On Monday night, an officer of DGFI was shot dead and a Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) personnel was wounded while conducting a drive against drug smugglers at Tombru border, ISPR said in a press release earlier today.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">ISPR, however, did not reveal the names of the DGFI and Rab personnel yet.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Meanwhile, Sub-inspector Ripon Chowdhury, appointed at Cox’s Bazar Sadar Hospital, told the UNB correspondent that a Rab member was brought to the hospital around 10 pm with critical injury after being shot at the border during a drive.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Assistant Sub-inspector of Naikhongchhari police station Joydeb said they were informed about firing at Konarpara area near the border but don’t have information about who was involved.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Some locals claimed Myanmar insurgent group Al Yaqin members shot at a team of Rab-15 members at zero point of the border around 7 pm last night while they were conducting a drive. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>