Clubbed by BSF men, Bangladeshi drowns
A Bangladeshi cattle trader drowned in the Dharla river in Lalmonirhat on Monday when an Indian border patrol aboard a speedboat hit him several times with sticks.
The deceased, Aminul Islam, 35, of Chawratari village, and five other Bangladeshis were crossing the river along Chawratari border in Sadar upazila with cattle from India, according to the Border Guard Bangladesh.
On a speedboat, a BSF team from Gidaldah camp in Cooch Behar chased them.
Aminul's body was found floating in the river near Kalakhawa ghat yesterday noon, the BGB said.
Other traders managed to come back home. “We searched for Aminul in the river, but couldn't find him,” said one of Aminul's fellow cattle traders.
On information, police recovered the body and sent it to Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsy.
The BGB will send a protest letter to its Indian counterpart after getting the post-mortem report, said Shamsul Alam, commander of Mogholhat BGB company camp under 15 BGB Battalion.
In another incident, the Indian border force returned the body of a Bangladeshi cattle trader to the BGB early yesterday, reports our Thakurgaon correspondent.
In this regard, a company commander-level flag meeting was held near Chapsar border in Haripur upazila. In the meeting, the BGB strongly protested the killing.
The dead is Mobarak Hossain, 32, son of Mohammad Belal of Magura village of the upazila.
On September 9, Mobarak along with another Bangladeshi cattle trader Moinul Haque was shot by the BSF on the Chapsar border. Mobarak died at North Bengal Medical College and Hospital in West Bengal, India, on Saturday afternoon, said Lt Col Jamal Hossain, commanding officer of BGB-2 Battalion in Dinajpur.
The BSF members of Moheshgaon camp of Uttar Dinajpur opened fire on the two when they were trying to enter India to bring cattle from there, BGB sources said quoting the Indian border force.
The BSF men picked up Mobarak and admitted him to a Raiganj hospital. He was later shifted to North Bengal Medical College and Hospital as his condition deteriorated.
Injured Moinul, somehow, came back home. He was admitted to Rangpur Medical College Hospital where he died on September 16.
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