India’s Border Security Force shot dead two Bangladeshi cattle traders in the Khanpur frontier at Motihar in Rajshahi on Saturday night, sources in the Border Guards Bangladesh said.
The deceased were Sirajul Islam, 40, and Jaheduddin, residents of Bhugolbari at Shibganj in
Chapainawabganj. The Indian guards took away the bodies, the sources said.
The families said that the Indian guards had shot Sirajul and Jaheduddin about 30 yards inside the Bangladesh territory when they were taking Indians cattle into Bangladesh early Sunday. The both died on the spot.
Motihar police subinspector Shahjahan Ali said that they had heard about the killing. He said the Indian guards had not returned the bodies although the Bangladesh guards wrote to the Indian authorities.
The Indian guards told the Bangladesh guards that they would return the bodies on Monday, he added.
A BGB official said that they had written to the Indian guards to hold a flag meeting and the Indians were yet to give any reply.
The Border Security Force earlier beat to death a Bangladeshi cattle trader in the same place on December 25, 2010. The deceased was Tajerul Islam, 30, a resident of Shibganj in Chapainawabganj.
The Indian guards on Friday shot dead a 15-year-old Bangladeshi girl in the Anantapur frontier in Kurigram.
According to human rights organisation Odhikar, India’s border guards kill one Bangladeshi every four days.
The organisation has also said that 74 Bangladeshis were killed, 72 injured and 43 abducted by the Indian border guards in 2010.
