BSF picks up two Bangladeshis
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) picked up two Bangladeshi youths near Dharmagarh border in Ranishankoil upazila on Wednesday afternoon and night.
The detainees were identified as Mohammad Mozammel, 20, son of Istefa Ali of Shahnagar village and ad Mokles, 20, son of Abdul Quddus of Bhadraswani village in Ranishankoil upazila of the district.
Acting Commanding Officer of 30, Thakurgaon Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Battalion Maj Touhid Bin Ishaq told this correspondent over cell phone that a patrol team of BSF Kukradaha camp picked up Mozammel from a place about 50 yards inside Indian territory on Dharmagarh border at 5:20pm.
Later around 7:00pm BSF members of the same camp picked up another Bangladeshi youth, Mokles, from a house about 100 yards inside Indian territory as per information of Mozammel.
BGB sent a letter to BSF on the same night asking it for holding a flag meeting for return of the Bangladeshi youths.
A company commander level flag meeting was held yesterday between the two border guards where BSF told BGB that the detainees were handed over to Goalpukur police in West Bengal, India on charge of drug smuggling.
Away in Satkhira, three Indian nationals, including a woman and a child, held by members of Border Guard of Bangladesh (BGB) for illegally entering Bangladesh, were sent back home yesterday.
BGB handed them over to BSF after a flag meeting at Taluigachha border in Sadar upazila around 8pm, reports UNB.
The three Indian nationals were identified as Aminul Islam, 28, his wife Afroza Sultana, 22 and daughter Irani of Mirzapur, 24 Parganas.
BGB arrested the three as they crossed the border illegally earlier in the morning, said Taluigachha BGB Company Commander Sheikh Faizuddin.
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