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| BSF-BDR firing at Indo-Bangladesh border |
| 2006-06-10 |
| Tension brewed along the Indo-Bangladesh border when BSF and BDR personnel exchanged fire for over six hours after a Bangladeshi smuggler was shot dead in Nadia district of West Bengal. A top BSF official said here that the exchange of fire with the Bangladeshi border guards, which began on Friday night at Gede area of the district, continued till the early hours on Saturday. "BDR men resorted to heavy firing of 6,000 rounds and our personnel repulsed with 1,500 rounds and all these happened when BSF jawans challenged some smugglers hurriedly crossing over from our border with items," the official said. The deceased, identified as a Bangladeshi, was carrying four kg of ganja and 50 bottles of cough syrup. Five others accompanying him fled under the cover of darkness, he said. The BSF official further said that Indian border guards fired six rounds to ward off an attack by the smugglers with sharp-edges weapons. "It is amply clear that BDR has made deliberate attempts to provide cover to the Bangladesh smugglers," he said... The smuggler's body, lying within the Indian side, was handed over to local police. A flag meeting was scheduled to be held at Gede later in the day. The official said that the BSF lodged a formal protest with the BDR, describing the firing as "unprovoked". The incident caused panic among the locals and many had already left the area. BSF reinforcements rushed to the area and patrolling has been intensified, the official said. |
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