Teknaf: Bangladesh reopened its transit border port with Burma yesterday after it was closed for three days because of a mutiny that erupted in the headquarters of the Bangladesh Rifles Bangladesh’s border security force in Dhaka last Wednesday.

"Teknaf is busy with the presence of Burmese and local cross-border traders, as the border transit port have been opened," said a resident of the small southern-Bangladesh border town opposite Burma's Maungdaw.

The border point is being carefully monitored by Bangladesh Rifles. The deadly rebellion at the BDR headquarters, in which more than 76 people, mostly army officers, were killed, resulted in the border closing for three days, according to border sources.

"I have been stranded for two days in Maungdaw waiting for a pass to come to Bangladesh," said a Burmese trader who came to Teknaf today.

The Teknaf resident said that the roads and markets looked deserted over the last three days during the closure of the border and the tense situation in Dhaka.

"The situation is now under control and BDR personnel are working on the border as earlier," he added.

Despite a maritime boundary dispute, bilateral trade between Bangladesh reached more than $140 million during the last fiscal.

Hundreds of traders from both sides are crossing the borders every day for business. There are two legal transit points in Bangladesh and one in Burma, and more than a dozen illegal cross over points being used by business syndicates and smugglers for cross-border trading.