A Bangladeshi man has lost a leg in a landmine explosion along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Naikhongchhari upazila of Bandarban.
The injured is Belal, 38, son of Abdul Hakim and a resident of Cox's Bazar.
Superintendent of Police (SP) Tariqul Islam said the explosion occurred when he went to the border area to bring back his cows around 7:00am on Wednesday.
Locals took him to a Cox's Bazar hospital for treatment, said Md Shafiullah, chairman of Naikhongchhari upazila.
On September 16, a Rohingya boy was killed and five others were injured as a mortar shell fired by the Myanmar army exploded at Zero Point Rohingya Camp.
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On the same day, another Bangladeshi youth was seriously injured in a landmine explosion along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Naikhongchhari upazila.
Besides, another man lost a leg in a landmine explosion near the border with Myanmar in Naikhongchhari on October 5.
In the face of continuous gunfire and mortar shelling inside Myanmar close to the Bangladesh border, local authorities evacuated 30 families from Dochari and Ghumdhum unions in Naikhongchhari on October 23.
Bangladesh's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has recently summoned the Myanmar envoy to Dhaka several times and formally protested against the move by the Buddhist-majority nation's military.
