A Bangladeshi man was reportedly shot to death by members of the Indian Border Security Force along the Burichang upazila鈥檚 Jamtala border in Cumilla on Sunday.
The deceased, Mohammad Anwar Hossain, was a resident of Mirpur village under Bakshimul union of the district.
People of the area said that Anwar worked as a labourer carrying sugar smuggled from India.
The Border Guard Bangladesh 60 battalion Captain Lieutenant Colonel AM Jaber bin Jabbar said, 鈥楢nwar tried to enter India illegally in the morning. At that time, the BSF members fired at him and he was shot dead.鈥�
鈥楬is body is still in the custody of the BSF. Discussion with the BSF members regarding the incident is ongoing,鈥� he said.
Local union parishad chairman Abdul Karim said that Anwar was shot by the BSF at the Jamtala border at about 8:30am.
Earlier on Friday, at least three Bangladeshis, including a farmer, were injured as the BSF shot at them reportedly entering the Bangladesh territory near the Hatibandha border in Lalmonirhat.
According to the quarterly report of the human rights group Ain O Salish Kendra, the trend of killing Bangladeshi nationals on the Bangladesh-India border by the BSF is rising with at least six Bangladeshis being killed in the first three months of this year, while it was four in the same period in 2023.
The ASK said that at least two Bangladeshi nationals were killed by the BSF every month on an average.
At least 1,236 Bangladeshis were killed and 1,145 injured in shootings by the Indian border force between 2000 and 2020, according to another rights organisation, Odhikar.
Bangladesh and India share a 4,096-kilometre-long international border, the fifth-longest land border in the world, comprising 262km with the Indian state of Assam, 856km with Tripura, 318km with Mizoram, 443km with Meghalaya, and 2,217km with West Bengal.
