The Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) shot dead a Bangladeshi national at the Hosenvida area in the bordering upazila of Bholahat in Chapainawabganj on Wednesday.

The BDR has sent a protest letter to the BSF at the Kreshthapur camp in India in this regard and was waiting for the reply till the filling of the report.

The victim was identified as Durul Huda, 32, son of Fazlur Rahman of Hosenvida village.

Sources in the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) here told he was shot when working in the field near the Bangladesh border pillar No. 200.

The body of the victim was handed over to the police and was buried after autopsy.