Indians shot a Bangladeshi young man dead on the Jaintapur border in Sylhet on Sunday.
The 25-year-old, Badsha Miah, who was shot dead, had lived at Muktarpur, a village along the Dibir Haor border at Jaintapur in the district, the family said.
The Khasia tribesmen of India fired on Badsha and three of his friends in the afternoon when they were walking along the border, Border Guard Bangladesh officials said.
Badsha died on the spot and his friends — Sumon
Miah, Ramjan Ali and Nipul Kumar — survived, the Jaintapur police said.
BGB personnel at
Jaintapur visited the spot and found the body lying near the border, officials said.
They could not recover the body instantly as it was lying inside the Indian territory, the officials said.
Lieutenant Colonel Shafiul Azam, the commanding officer of 5 Border Guard Battalion, told New Age, ‘We have already contacted our Indian counterparts to get back body as early as possible.’
Indian civilians shot dead at least six Bangladeshis and beaten to death one while five sustained bullet injury in the frontiers this year, according to rights group Odhikar.
Bangladesh shares 4,165 kilometres of border stretch with India.
-With New Age input
