YANGON, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- A team of Myanmar security police patrolling along the border with Bangladesh has been ambushed by an unidentified group located in the Bangladesh side with one police being injured, Myanmar News Agency reported Tuesday.
The Myanmar border guard force was attacked between border post No. 41 and 42 in region-2, Maungtaw township of Rakhine state on Monday at 3:15 p.m. local time, an initial report of the Myanmar Police Force was quoted as saying.
In its counter-attack on the attackers, one police received a bullet wound.
Myanmar border guard force has reinforced its force to keep the situation under watch.
Myanmar's border guard force has been regularly carrying out joint patrol with Bangladesh counterpart in effective preventing terrorist activities along the two countries' border as well as illegal immigration and trading.
Both sides claimed that joint patrols around some checkpoints have led to timely exchange of information and successful upkeep of the rule of law.
Myanmar and Bangladesh agreed at a ministerial meeting in October last year on 10 points relating to promotion of cooperation in strengthening border security and law enforcement.
The 10 points cover combating terrorism, illegal border crossing, repatriation and verification of citizenship for those people who were displaced to Bangladesh, triggered by conflict in Myanmar's western Rakhine state as well as opening of border liaison offices.
The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army extremists launched attacks on police outposts in Myanmar's Rakhine State on Aug. 25 last year, displacing a vast number of residents to border areas with Bangladesh.
