The funeral and burial of Huzaifa Afnan, a child from Teknaf’s Hwaikyang Union who died after being injured by gunfire from Myanmar’s Arakan Army, were completed on Sunday, February 8, 2026. The funeral took place at the family graveyard in the Lambabil Techchibridge area of Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila. Local residents, along with political figures including former MP Shahjahan Chowdhury and Jamaat leader Maulana Nur Ahmad Anwari, attended the prayer service.

Huzaifa had been under treatment for 27 days after being critically wounded in the head by a bullet fired from Myanmar’s Rakhine State on January 11. He was initially treated at an MSF hospital, later transferred to Chittagong Medical College Hospital, and finally to the National Institute of Neurosciences and Hospital in Dhaka, where he died on February 7.

After the funeral prayers, local residents and political leaders urged stronger border surveillance and patrols to prevent further loss of innocent lives in the border area.