BSF kills Bangladeshi along Lalmonirhat border

Members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) shot dead a Bangladeshi youth at Patgram border in Lalmonirhat on early Friday.

The deceased Abul Kalam, 30, was a resident of Jhalongi village under Srirampur union of the upazila.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and locals said, Abul Kalam and five-six other cattle traders went to India’s Doradabri village. They came face-to-face with a patrol team of BSF Doradabri camp on their way back with cattle. Kalam was shot in throat and head when BSF members opened fired on them. Kalam died of excessive bleeding.

61 BGB battalion’s Jhalongi BGB camp’s nayek subedar Jalal and local union parishad member Hossain Ali confirmed the death of Kalam.

Suman Kumar Mahanta, officer in charge of Patgram police station, said the body has been brought to police station. The body would be sent to Lalmonirhat sadar hospital for autopsy.