The paramilitary force Border Guard Bangladesh and coast guards are on alert so that intruders from Myanmar cannot enter Bangladesh territory, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said today.

“A sense of unease is prevailing around the border with Myanmar,” the home minister told reporters emerging from a meeting of national committee on smuggling resistance today.

“In the meeting, we decided to increase monitoring along the borders across the country to resist smuggling from the neighbouring countries," he said.

“We will also set up scanning machines at all check posts along the borders,” he added.

While talking to reporters, the minister also added that law enforcers during the first six months of the current year arrested 9,862 persons and seized products worth Tk 1,261 crore conducting 38,600 raids in the bordering areas of the country.

High officials of all law enforcing agencies were present in the meeting.

Yesterday, coast guards prevented 125 Rohingyas, including women and children, from entering Bangladesh territory through the Naf river as the group attempted to escape violence in Myanmar.

The Rohingyas tried to enter the country amid an uptick of violent clashes in neighbouring Myanmar's Rakhine state.