Thursday, October 19th, 2006Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) traded bullets for an hour across Samanta frontier of Mohespur upazila in Jhenidah yesterday after BSF killed a Bangladeshi farmer.Meanwhile, around 400 people of the village Katchuarputa have left their homes fearing further escalation of the gun battle.Sources said Khabir Uddin, 40, and his son Suman, 10, of village Katchuarputa were mowing their field around 10:00am when the BSF shot Khabir killing him on the spot.An hour later, BDR reached the spot and took position near the border when the exchange of fire began. The BDR claimed they fired at ...
(read more) Saturday, September 30th, 2006Indian Border Security Force (BSF) killed a Bangladeshi youth near Hardona border on Thursday night. Locals said the Indian border guards of Soldana camp ran a speedboat over Amir Hossain, 25, while he was crossing the Ichhamoti River with cattle, leaving him seriously injured.Bangladeshi fishermen rescued Amir in a critical condition. He was first admitted to Satkhira Sadar Hospital and later shifted to the Khulna 250-bed Hospital where he died yesterday afternoon.BDR (Bangladesh Rifles) confirmed the incident.UNB Thakurgaon correspondent reported that the BSF fired gunshots at Haripur frontier on Thursday night, creating panic among the residents at Dangaon and Dahagaon ...
(read more) Friday, September 22nd, 2006Indian Border Security Force (BSF) gunned down a Bangladeshi farmer near Khatiamari border under Roumari upazila of the district yesterday morning.The victim was identified as Moniruzzaman, 32, son of Shirajul Islam of the frontier Khatiamari village.According to Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) and local sources, the Indian border guards of Kuchnimari camp opened fire on Moniruzzaman while he was working on his cropland near the border at around 6:00am. He died instantly.The BSF men then took the body to their camp.On receiving the news, the BDR personnel of Baliamari border outpost rushed to the spot and sent a letter to the BSF, ...
(read more) Saturday, September 16th, 2006About 5,000 panicked inhabitants of at least five villages left their homesteads as gunfight erupted between the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) and Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) on Zakiganj borders on Thursday night.The exchange of several hundred gunshots continued until 10:20pm after the BSF started firing at the Uttarkul BDR outpost, sources said.Panic-stricken villagers of Uttarkul, Kazipara, Dighali, Salehpur and Binnapara left their village homes within an hour following the gunfight.Hundreds of people were seen on the Sylhet-Zakiganj road at 11:00pm on Thursday night waiting for bus and other vehicles to move to safer places, he said.Second-in-command of Sylhet BDR Major ...
(read more) Sunday, September 3rd, 2006Indian Border Security Force (BSF) yesterday closed Tin Bigha Corridor preventing movement of cattle from Dahagram-Angorpota enclave to Lalmonirhat.Sources said residents of the enclave could not take their cattle to the cattle market in Patgram upazila for sale.On contact, 19 Battalion Commander of Bangladesh Rifles Lt Col Shafayet confirmed the incident and said they would call for a flag meeting today to protest against the incident.It was, however, not clear why BSF closed the corridor.
(read more) Saturday, September 2nd, 2006Indian Border Security Force (BSF) fired on two camps of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) in sadar and Kalaroa upazilas early yesterday, triggering fresh tension across the border between the two countries.Situation also was tense along the Zakiganj borders hours into a high level meeting between the two border guards as the BSF opened fires on some Bangladeshi farmers on Thursday while they were returning home from cropland.Shabana, 12, daughter of Majnu Miah of Aior village, was seriously injured in the firing.UNB reports: Official and local sources said the BSF men of Tarali camp fired a shot targeting the Kakdanga BDR camp ...
(read more) Saturday, August 26th, 2006Indian Border Security Force (BSF) and Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) traded gunfire at Gazipur border area under Sadar upazila in Satkhira on Thursday night. Our Satkhira correspondent reported that BSF personnel of Pakirdanga camp under Basirhat police station in North 24 Pargana of West Bengal, across the Gazipur border at Sadar upazila, fired two to four rounds of bullets at the BDR camp around 2:00am, forcing the Bangladeshi border security force to retaliate with five to six shots. No casualty was reported.After the incident, BSF was put on alert along the border, its strength at border outposts was reinforced, and ...
(read more) Friday, August 25th, 2006Bangladesh-India Joint Boundary Working Group (JBWC) will visit enclaves and territories in adverse possession in next one month and submit report to their respective governments, Indian Home Secretary VK Duggal said in Dhaka yesterday.The JBWC met in Dhaka on July 16-17 and discussed the outstanding border issues that cause frequent skirmishes between BDR and BSF."India and Bangladesh were friends, are friends and must remain friends. We must work towards making the relationship more solid, more concrete so that the coming generation should not fault us on anything," Duggal told reporters after courtesy calls on Foreign Minister M Morshed Khan and ...
(read more) Thursday, August 24th, 2006Indian Border Security Force (BSF) and Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) traded gunfire on Baikari border under Satkhira Sadar upazila last night. The BSF personnel of Kaizuri camp in North 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, fired six to seven bullets targeting the Baikari BDR camp at about 10 pm, forcing the paramilitary Bangladesh troops to retaliate with 10 to 15 shots. No casualty was however reported.After the incident, the Indian border guards reinforced its strength at all border outposts and increased patrols along the frontier.On the other hand, BDR personnel have been put on high alert on the border, BDR sources ...
(read more) Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006A Bangladeshi national was wounded as Indian Border Security Force (BSF) opened fire on Zakiganj border in Sylhet, while shots were traded between the Indian border guards and Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) along the border in Satkhira yesterday. Injured Asad Uddin, 65, of Koshkonokpur village was admitted to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital.The provocative incident took place after the sector commander level flag meeting between the BDR and BSF on August 13, where both sides agreed to maintain status quo on the farmlands near the border outposts, follow the agreement signed in 1974 and not to create trouble for ...
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