Ramgarh (Khagrachhari), CHT News
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
One activist of the United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF) has been killed and another detained while injured following an alleged army ambush in Ramgarh Upazila, Khagrachhari district.
The incident occurred at approximately 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, June 24, 2026, in the Premtala area of Ramgarh.
The slain activist was identified as Bobin Tripura, 32. A second activist, Mangsanu Marma, also known as Jibon, 29, has gone missing and is believed to have been taken into custody while wounded.
In a statement issued to media, UPDF Khagrachhari District Organizer Angya Marma strongly condemned the incident, describing it as a premeditated killing. He alleged that army personnel had been lying in wait in the Premtala area before launching the attack on the UPDF activists.
Marma further alleged that the army has been carrying out extrajudicial killings in an effort to suppress the movement led by the UPDF in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, and asserted that no degree of repression would halt the mass movement operating under the organization’s leadership.
He also dismissed as false and fabricated official claims of a “gunfight between the army and UPDF” and the reported recovery of weapons.
The UPDF has demanded an immediate end to political repression against the organization, prosecution of the army personnel allegedly responsible for the killing, and the unconditional release of the detained activist.
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