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Myanmar returns dead BGB trooper

Photo: BD Military Staff Correspondent,   BDNews24 June 01, 2014 Myanmar has returned the body of a border guard, missing since a border firing at Bandarban's Naikhangchharhi. Maj Gen Aziz Ahmed, the head of Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB), said the trooper missing since Wednesday was identified by a BGB team on Saturday evening. “He was identified as our Nayek Md Mizanur Rahman .” The 10-strong team completed all formalities to bring the body back at 6pm, he told reporters at BGB headquarters in Dhaka. Earlier, Myanmar border police officer Tun Oo confirmed to Irrawaddy, a Myanmar news portal that a BGB personnel had been killed by his unit during the border skirmish. “They told us last night that they would bring the body to the 52 border pillar between 11:00 to 11:30 am today (Saturday). They set the ground rule, saying ten of our men, led by a major, should meet ten of them,” said the BGB chief. But Myanmar’s border police did not bring