BSF shoots Bangladeshi dead
A Bangladeshi cattle trader was shot dead allegedly by Indian Border Security Force along Agrobhulote border in Jashore's Sharsha early yesterday.
Shariful Islam, 25, was the son of Ishask Ali of Rajgonj village in the upazila.
Police recovered the body in the morning from the Ichhamati river near the bordering area and sent it to Jashore General Hospital morgue for an autopsy, said Badrul Alam, officer-in-charge of Sharsha Police Station.
QuotingShariful's fellow cattle traders, his uncle Yunus Ali said Shariful and some other people went to India for bringing cattle on Monday. But when they were returning to Bangladesh through the border around 4:00am yesterday, BSF members of Jhaudanga camp opened fire.
Shariful was hit and he died on the spot, while others managed to return home.
Later, the BSF members dumped the body into the river.
Lt Col Manzoor-e-Elahi, commanding officer of 21 BGB Battalion, said a BGB team found the body floating in the river in the morning and informed the Sharsha police.
However, BSF officials ofJhaudanga campdenied the allegation of killingShariful, said Nayek Subedar Mujibur Rahman, company commander ofAgrobhulote BGB camp.
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