Ambassador summoned

Dhaka: Bangladesh summoned Myanmar’s ambassador yesterday over an increased security presence near their border, where thousands of Rohingya Muslims have been sheltering just inside Myanmar, Bangladesh’s foreign ministry said.

The United Nations refugee agency has expressed concern that thousands of people staying on the strip of land, dubbed ‘‘no man’s land’’ because it is beyond Myanmar’s border fence but on Myanmar’s side of a creek that marks the international border, would be forcibly returned without enough care for their safety.

On Thursday, Myanmar armed soldiers and police, estimated to number more than 200, came to the border fence and appeared to be moving in heavy weapons, including mortars, said a Bangladesh army official and the two guards, all three of whom spoke on condition of anonymity. — Reuters