BSF firing at Tripura border: Bangladeshi smuggler killed, another injured; 3 Myanmar nationals arrested
Bangladeshi smuggler was killed and another injured in BSF firing along the India-Bangladesh border with Tripura’s Unakoti district on Sunday.
The BSF also apprehended three Myanmar nationals in Agartala railway station on Sunday after the foreign citizens came to Tripura from Hyderabad to go to Bangladesh in a clandestine route.
BSF sources said that when the border guarding troopers were performing duty ahead of the fence near the Magroli Border Out Post, they observed 15 to 20 smugglers approaching Bangladesh from Indian territory while another 25 to 30 miscreants from the Bangladesh side carrying some contrabands.
BSF troops challenged them to stop but they didn’t pay heed and became aggressive and encircled the border guarding jawans, assaulted a BSF personnel, tried to snatch the weapon and attempted to take him to Bangladesh territory.
Sensing imminent danger BSF jawans fired from Pump Action Gun, a non-lethal weapon, killing one of the Bangladeshi smugglers Saddam Hussein (23), a resident of Moulovibazar district, and another smuggler was injured and he was taken to Bangladesh territory by the smugglers.
In this incident, a BSF Jawan got grievous injury on his forehead, who was further evacuated to nearby district hospital where he got preliminary medical treatment. Now the condition of the jawan is stable.
A Border Security Force spokesman said that the Anti Human Trafficking Unit of BSF in a joint operation with the Railway Police Force (RPF) and Government Railway Police (GRP) apprehended three
