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According to sources and Al Jazeera news, the Myanmar army has been laying up landmines along a section of its border it shares with Bangladesh.

These landmines are reportedly aimed at preventing the currently fleeing Rohingya Muslims from returning to their lands.

As a result, the Bangladeshi government will formally lodge a protest on Wednesday against Myanmar's laying of landmines so close to the border.

"They are putting the landmines in their territory along the barbed-wire fence" between a series of border pillars, one of the sources told Reuters.

"Our forces have also seen three to four groups working near the barbed wire fence, putting something into the ground," one of the sources said.

"We then confirmed with our informers that they were laying landmines."

Reacting to the reports, Phone Tint, Rakhine's minister for border affairs, told Al Jazeera: "We did not do such a thing."

Zaw Htay, spokesperson for Myanmar's national leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, was not immediately available for comment.

On Monday, Htay told Reuters that clarification was needed.

"Where did it explode, who can go there and who laid those landmines. Who can surely say those mines were not laid by the terrorists?" he said.