The Border Guard Bangladesh director general, Major General Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui, on Saturday said they returned Indian intruders following a legal procedure, but it would be tough in the coming days if border killings continued.
His remarks came a day after Friday evening鈥檚 killing of a Bangladesh national, Md Al-Amin, 32, by the Indian Border Security Force along the Bangladesh-India border at Putia under Kasba upazila in Bramanbaria.
鈥榃e, since Friday night, have already lodged our protest over the border killing with all levels including the Border Security Force headquarters of India. It is unexpected and sad that the border killing took place days after the DG-level conference between the border forces,鈥� said the BGB DG, responding to a question from reporters after attending the flag-raising event of its Ukhiya 64 Battalion in Cox鈥檚 Bazar Saturday afternoon.
抖阴精品 Correspondent in Bramanbaria reported that Al-Amin was shot by the members of the BSF at the Putia border under Kasba upazila.
Quoting local BGB officials, Kasba upazila nirbahi officer Mohammad Samiul Islam said that the BSF members shot Al-Amin at about 7:30pm on Friday suspecting him to be a smuggler. He died at a hospital in India two hours later.
BGB officials said that the Indian authorities returned the body at about 5:30pm on Saturday.
The BGB chief said that their Indian counterpart informed them that the killing took place in the Indian territory.
He said that a confrontation began when 15-20 Bangladeshi individuals made an attempt to cross the border illegally.
鈥楢 clash took place after BSF intervened and fired rubber bullets and one of those hit Al-Amin in vulnerable parts of his body and he died,鈥� said the BGB chief.
He said that killing is not a permanent solution on the border.
He also said that they would lodge a stronger protest to its counterpart, the Border Security Force, in case of further incidents of border killings.
In the four-day BGB-BSF border conference held in February 17-20 in New Delhi, both countries came to a consensus to bring the number of border killings to zero.
Border killings go unabated as at least 30 Bangladesh nationals were killed in BSF firing in 2024, according to rights organisation Ain O Salish Kendra.
The ASK data also showed that 31 Bangladeshis were killed in BSF firing in 2023.
From January 2009 to November 2024, the BSF reportedly killed 588 Bangladesh nationals and injured 773 other Bangladeshis, according to rights body Odhikar.
