3 Killed, 15 Injured in Gunfight in Bangladesh

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3 Killed, 15 Injured in Gunfight in Bangladesh

Three tribal people were killed and 15 others injured in a fierce gunfight in Bangladesh's southeastern troubled Chittagong Hill Tracts early on Monday.

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Three tribal people were killed and 15 others injured in a fierce gunfight in Bangladesh's southeastern troubled Chittagong Hill Tracts early on Monday.

Official sources here said the gun battle started between the two factions--one supporting the 1997 peace accord and the other opposing the pact that ended the decades old insurgency in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.

The hours long gun fight killed three people and injured 15 others in the Rangamati hill district, bordering eastern Indian state of Tripura and Myanmar. The injured are being treated in thelocal hospital.

The United People's Democratic Front (UPDF) opposed the peace pact, demanding full autonomy in three hill districts of Rangamati,Khagrachari and Bandarban.

Abduction, killing and gunfight have become a common phenomenonin the hill districts. The group opposing the peace pact collects fund through abduction, hijacking and toll collection. The development work in the hill tracts was stalled two years back after the group abducted two Danish engineers and a British aid worker.

The gunfight between the two groups since the peace pact in 1997 left at least 50 people killed and thousands injured.

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