A land mind was detonated on the border between Burma and Bangladesh in the early morning hours of Friday, reported the Dainik Cox’s Bazar on 15 November 2008.
The newspaper reported that Chairman Dopol Bawara said the land mine exploded on the Burmese side a few kilometers from the border gate in Kon Don of Bangladesh.
Local people said that some smugglers may have been affected by the explosion but no one knows of any casualties from the incident.
Burma’s border security forces in the area are trying to withhold information to avoid the attention of the high authorities in Burma, a local source said.
The land mine was triggered amid wide reports in the region that Burma’s Nasaka forces have been planting land mines along the border in response to the tension with Bangladesh.