Cattle trader shot dead by BSF

Indian Border Security Force men shot dead a Bangladeshi cattle trader on Moheshpur border in Jhenidah early yesterday.

Sumon, 25, of Shyamkur village in Moheshpur upazila, was returning home from India with cattle when he was shot around 4:00am, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB)-58 officials said.

BSF personnel of Pakhiura camp opened fire on Sumon near border pillar No 60/133-134.

Kamrul Hasan, additional director of BGB, said Sumon went to India to bring cattle.

BGB officials received Sumon’s body after a flag meeting with BSF men in no-man’s land around 4:30pm, he added.

The body was handed over to the dead’s family, he said.