Bangladesh raises concern over border killing

Bangladesh has raised concerns over the killing of two of its nationals by the Indian border security force, BSF.

“We’ve raised our concern at the appropriate level,” Foreign Secretary Md Shahidul Haque said on Saturday while replying a question at the foreign ministry.

“We hope India will take measures,” he said.

BSF opened fire in the early morning of Saturday at the Jessore borders killing two Bangladesh nationals.

Three more were injured, according to Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) officials.

The dead have been identified as ‘Aku’, 29 and ‘Shanto’, 45. Both of them hailed from Benapole’s Putkhali Village.

Foreign Secretary Md Shahidul Haque

BGB Dowlatpur Camp Commander Nayek Subedar Amjad Hossain said that a group of cattle-traders were entering Bangladeshi territory through the border when BSF personnel opened fire.

One of them died while being taken to a local hospital while the other was declared dead by doctors at the hospital.

The bodies were sent to Jessore Sadar Hospital for autopsy, said Benapole police’s Inspector Rafiqul Islam.

Border deaths have been a contentious issue between India and Bangladesh, though the BSF said they had adopted the strategy to use non-lethal weapons since 2012.