Maungdaw, Arakan State : A Bangladeshi relief team left for Maungdaw Town , Arakan State , Burma on May 8, with relief material for Cyclone Nargis hit victims in lower Burma , said an aide of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR).

On May 8, at about 11:30 a.m. a team of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) from Bangladesh led by Lt. Col Mahbub Ali from Chittagong  went to Maungdaw to hand over relief material. He was accompanied by Lt Col Ahsan Habib Khan, the Commander of 42 BDR Battalion of Teknaf, Major Jahidul Islam, the deputy Commander of 42 BDR Battalion of Teknaf and 15 BDR personnel.

They carried tablets of medicine and mineral water worth Tk 500,000 from BDR's own godown for the cyclone affected people. The team handed over the material to Nasaka , Burma 's border security force director Lt. Col U Aung Htay and returned at about 4:00 p.m.

The Nasaka director thanked the Bangladesh team for help for the cyclone affected people and also hoped that the bilateral relation will be strengthened between the two countries, according to an aide of Burma ’s border security force (Nasaka).

Earlier, on May 7, a team of the Bangladesh Army led by Brig-General Taslim Uddin Khan went to Burma to help and rescue people missing in the cyclone since May 3. The team will handed over relief material such as potatoes, medicine, oral saline, water purification tablets, Shari , Burmese Tami, Longyi, and trousers.