Jessore, Chuadanga borders
BSF picks up three, injures another
Indian border guards picked up three Bangladeshis from Benapole border in Jessore and Chuadanga border yesterday and the day before.
In Jessore, BSF personnel picked up two youths from border near Banapole check post on Saturday afternoon.
One of them was identified as Nayon, 26, of Sadipur village under Benapole union in Sharsha upazila. Identity of the other could not be known, reports UNB.
Nayek Subedar Fazlul Haque of BGB 26 Battalion said BSF men picked up the two, suspecting them to be smugglers as they were roaming near `no man`s land` at Sadipur frontier in Benapole on Saturday.
However, locals claimed that a group of BSF men entered Bangladesh territory from Petrapole at around 5:00pm and abducted the two youths.
Benapole BGB sources said they sent a letter to BSF, asking whereabouts of the two youths, picked up by them (BSF) from Sadipur border on Saturday.
Our Kushtia correspondent reported that a Bangladeshi was injured as Indian Border Security Force (BSF) threw bombs on a group of four cattle traders on border in Jibonnagar upazila of Chuadanga district early yesterday.
According to BGB source, BSF personnel hurled two bombs at four Bangladeshi cattle traders while they were entering India through barbed wire fence gate No-1 on the border at around 4:30am, leaving one of them named Saidur Rahman, 32, of Jibonnagar upazila injured.
The Indian border guards also caught one of the cattle traders named Mukul Hossain, 26, son of Tana Mondol of Kusumpur village in the upazila while the rest two managed to escape.
Bomb injured Saidur was admitted to Jessore Sadar Hospital. The border guards of both Bangladesh and India held a flag meeting at Medinipur frontier at around 4:30pm.
In the meeting, BSF said they will return Mukul Hossain through a legal process,†Lt. Colonel Kazi Asaduzzaman of BGB 35 Battalion said.
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