Cox’s Bazaar: Three Burmese soldiers arrested by Bangladeshi border forces were brought to army headquarters in Dhaka for interrogation about the border situation and their desertion from the Burmese Army, said a source.

Three Burmese soldiers were arrested by Bangladesh Rifles on Saturday while they were sheltered at Hay Ra Man Maung Shwe Sein Village in Thenchi Township of Bandarban District in Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tract.

The three were identified as Maung Maung Than, Soe Htwe, and Than Htay Hlaing, from Light Infantry Battalion 538 based in Rathidaung Township in Burma.

According to an army source, the three soldiers fled to Bangladesh out of fear of punishment for losing a magazine and some ammunition during a survey of a pillar area on the border.

Bangladesh authorities are eager to know the latest situation on the Burmese side of the border after the Burmese authorities began constructing a border fence in northern Arakan. The three soldiers were brought to Dhaka army headquarters for questioning for more information about the border situation.

Burma is reportedly erecting a fence along its western border with Bangladesh. Many army battalions and police forces have been arriving in the border area to implement the project.

Meanwhile, BDR also arrested two Burmese citizens, Nurul Hossain (20) and Hossain Ahmed (18) when they were taking photographs of the border area in Naikhongchhari Township near the Burmese town of Maungdaw.

Tension is palable along the border since Burma started unilaterally erecting a barbed-wire fence along 200 kilometers of land border with Bangladesh, sources said.