BSF troops kill Bangladeshi cattle trader

A Bangladeshi cattle trader was killed and another injured when the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) fired rubber bullets and hurled crude bombs at them along Hapania border in Naogaon's Porsha upazila early yesterday.

The dead is Jahurul Islam, 32, son of Abdul Latif of the upazila's Doarpal-Nimatala village, and the injured is Bakul Hossain, 30, son of Mofiz Uddin of the same village.

The BSF troops of Kadarapara camp in West Bengal's Pannapur attacked a group of eight to 10 cattle traders around 3:30am when they were returning home from India through the border, said Lt Col Rafiqul Hasan, commanding officer of 14 BGB Battalion in Naogaon.

The BSF men fired rubber bullets and hurled homemade bombs targeting the cattle traders near pillar No. 232, one kilometre inside the Indian territory, leaving two wounded.

However, their fellows managed to come back home, taking Jahurul and Bakul with them.

Jahurul suffered splinter injuries. He died on the way to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital around 6:30am. Several injury marks were found on his body, said the Border Guard Bangladesh official.

Bakul took treatment at a local clinic.

Jahurul and Bakul along with other cattle traders entered India through the Hapania border sometime on Wednesday night, said BGB sources.

On information, police recovered the body and sent it to Naogaon Sadar Hospital morgue for an autopsy.

The BGB sent a letter to its Indian counterpart, protesting the killing.