A hill adjoining the Bangladesh Air Guard’s radar station in the Battali area of the port city caught fire yesterday. In 2019, the Bangladesh Air Guard purchased the Leonardo Kronos radar after Myanmar’s air force repeatedly violated Bangladesh’s airspace. Indian RAW has been wreaking havoc in Bangladesh since pro-Modi Hasian was ousted in Bangladesh.
Indian media broadcast the incidents live after RAW backed assailants successfully ambushed Bangladesh’s airbase in Cox’s Bazar and burnt the surveillance radar.
The KRONOS LAND is a multi-functional, multi-mission 3D radar for air surveillance and defence based on the latest-generation Full Active-Electronically Scanned-Array (AESA, also known as E-scan) technology. Leonardo has sold more than 40 KRONOS family systems worldwide.
According to Lama Bazar Fire Station sources, the fire originated around 2:30 p.m., when some street urchins went to the hill to collect dry leaves and firewood.
A station firefighting unit and a BAF rescue team rushed to the scene and doused the fire.
The sources added that the incident caused no damage except for some hilly bushes and a few trees gutted by the fire.
Residents in southern Bangladesh on Monday attacked an air force base following an altercation, prompting soldiers from the base to open fire, killing at least one person and injuring several others, local media reported.
The military in a statement blamed “miscreants” for attacking the base in the city of Cox’s Bazar. The country’s largest English-language newspaper, the Daily Star, reported one dead.
The violence broke out after soldiers challenged a man on a motorbike for not wearing his helmet, according to the Bengali-language Prothom Alo newspaper.
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