BSF, BDR trade fire along Meghalaya border

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Shillong: BSF and Bangladesh Rifles exchanged fire at four places in Meghalaya along the Indo- Bangla border on Tuesday, escalating tension along the international boundary.

BDR troopers opened fire on Indian villagers who had gone for cultivation in an 'adverse possession land' near Noljuri in Meghalaya's Jaintia Hills district, prompting BSF to retaliate, BSF sources said.

An Indian woman was reportedly injured in the firing. Details are awaited.

Later, the two sides exchanged fire at Muktapur, Ratangtila and Dawki also, sources said.

PTI

 

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There's the Bangladeshi version of the news.


BDR, BSF trading gunfire on Sylhet borders

Indian Border Security Force and Bangladesh Rifles were trading gunfire on Tamabil and Sripur frontiers in Sylhet till Tuesday afternoon.

A tense like situation was prevailing on Tamabil and Sripur borders on Monday as few dozens of Indian Khasias, backed by the neighbouring country’s border guards, intruded into the Bangladesh territory and forcibly ploughed three hectares of land.

Border sources said BSF troops opened fire without provocation while BDR jawans were trying to convince the intruding group of indigenous to leave Bangladesh territory.

On Monday noon, some 30-40 Khasias with bows and arrows and 20 BSF men intruded 200 yards inside the zero line in between Tamabil and Sripur border outposts and started ploughing farmland at Naljuri.

BDR men from the two border outposts rushed to the spot on information and asked them to leave the Bangladesh territory. The Indians did not pay heed rather continued ploughing the land in between border pillar no 1279 and 1280.

The BDR official said disturbance on the border people by the Khasias with the support of BSF men has become almost a regular affair on Jaintapur, Tamabil, Sripur and Padua borders for months.


The Daily Star