India’s Border Security Force killed a Bangladeshi in the Masudpur border at Shibganj in Chapainawabganj early Friday, the police said.
The deceased, Mahbubul Alam Kalu, 30, of Thutapara in Shibganj, was a cattle trader.
The Indian border guards have killed 14 civilian Bangladeshis since September 27 when the directors general of the Bangladesh Rifles and the Border Security Force met in Dhaka to discuss border issues.
The 39 Rifles Battalion commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Abu Bakar Abu said the Indian border guards of the Shubhapur camp opened fire on a group of people who were returning with cattle from India about 2:30am. Alam died on the spot.
Other traders in the group brought the body into Bangladesh about 4:00am. The police sent it for a post-mortem examination.
Abu Bakar said he had sent a protest note to his Indian counterpart in connection with the killing.
The killing took place a day after the US-based Human Rights Watch had launched its report, which said that India and Bangladesh should take immediate steps to end the killing of hundreds of their citizens at the West Bengal-Bangladesh border by the Indian border guards.
According to rights organisation Odhikar, 875 Bangladeshis were killed, 923 shot and wounded and 933 abducted by the Indian guards between January, 1, 2000 and August 31, 2010.
It said that the BSF personnel had killed 59 Bangladeshis in 11 months of the current year.
