A Bangladeshi national was killed after the personnel of the Border Security Force (BSF) opened fire near the international border in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district. The incident occurred on Saturday evening at Meghna, a border outpost about 1,100 metres inside Indian territory.
According to the officials of the South Bengal Frontier which guards the portion of the border, a jawan “fired a round in self-defence” and said the deceased was part of a group of smugglers. He was taken to Karimnagar hospital where he died of injuries. The identity has not been ascertained.
“The smugglers, who came with the intention of carrying forcible smuggling, attacked the BSF jawan and fired three rounds at the jawan with a country-made pistol but the BSF jawan managed to defend himself,” the South Bengal Frontier said.
