Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan today said the involvement of militants with Kuki-Chin National Front (KNF), an armed group in the Chattogram Hill Tracts (CHT), is being investigated.

“Different groups in the CHT including KNF, Shantu Larmar's JSS, and UPDF are trying to destabilize the situation along the borders,” he told reporters after the inauguration of modern fire equipment turntable ladders at the Fire Service and Civil Defence headquarters in Dhaka.

“We have engaged army and police forces in the three CHT districts. When necessary, police, BGB, Rab and army are taking action there as per need,” said the home minister.

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Regarding the turntable ladder, he said it will be able to extinguish fire up to 24 floors of a building.

He also termed the members of the fire service, who sacrificed their lives in Sitakunda depot fire, as ‘Agnibir’.