A Border Guard Bangladesh member inspects a red-flagged zone deemed contaminated with landmines in the Bangladesh-Myanmar frontier district of Bandarban on December 19, 2025. (AFP)

Landmines destroy limbs and lives on Bangladesh-Myanmar border

In the dense hill forests along Bangladesh's border with war-torn Myanmar, villagers are losing limbs to landmines, casualties of a conflict not of their making.

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