Border meeting after Chittagong flare-up

Local border guard commanders from India and Bangladesh have held a meeting in the Bangladeshi town of Ramgarh, in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, to restore calm after an outbreak of ethnic violence in the area.

Buddhist tribespeople from the Marma tribe said that about 300 of their homes in Ramgarh had been set on fire by a mob of Bengali-speaking settlers at the weekend, following the killing of a Bengali driver.

Bangladeshi officials put the number of homes destroyed at 65.

A spokesman for the Indian Border Security Force told the BBC that a small group of refugees had fled across the border, but returned home after today's meeting.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service