Staff Reporter :Two ‘abducted’ Myanmar soldiers were rescued from the country’s Bandarban frontier area on Tuesday night, said Mohsin Reza, Public Relations Officer of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB).”The Bangladesh Army and BGB have recovered two abducted members of the Myanmar Army after a relentless combined drive from July 5 to 14,” BGB Director General (DG) Major General Aziz Ahmed said this in a press briefing at the BGB Headquarters on Wednesday afternoon.He, however, did not reveal who abducted them, when they were abducted or from where.”They will be handed over soon,” the DG said.”They have been given medical treatment as they were found to be ill at the time they were rescued,” he said.Myanmar’s Border Guard Police (BGP) abducted BGB Nayek Abdur Razzak after a shootout on the Naf River in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf on June 17.After eight days of captivity in Myanmar, Razzak was finally handed over to BGB on June 25.However, a BBC Bangla report said that an Arakanese militia group had abducted the Myanmar Army’s Deputy Sergeant Naing Tun and Private Khin Lyat a few days ago.Myanmar’s armed forces had learnt that they had been taken towards the Bangladesh border.They also informed the Bangladesh authorities about the matter, a BBC Bangla report said.
