Tension has erupted between the Border Guard Bangladesh and Border Security Force, the frontier guards of Bangladesh and India respectively, during the last two days at the Chouka border in Chapainawabganj, cantered around the construction of a barbed wire fence.
The BGB, however, stated that the situation was then calm.
According to BGB and local sources, BSF members from the Sabdalpur BSF camp of Gopalganj police station in India鈥檚 Malda district began constructing a barbed wire fence along the border at border pillars 177/1S, 2S, and 3S Sunday morning. The BGB members intervened, leading to a flag meeting between both sides in the afternoon, but no solution was reached.
On Monday, when the BSF resumed the fence construction, the BGB again intervened. After this, the BSF halted the work. This has caused panic among the local people.
Local Union Parishad member Kamal Uddin said that the BSF was putting up the barbed wire fence along the zero line at about 10:00am Monday when the BGB intervened, led to heightened tension in the area.
Lieutenant colonel Golam Kibria, the commander of the 59th BGB battalion, said that the BSF had started digging for the barbed wire fence, but after the BGB intervention, they stopped the work.
鈥楾he situation is now calm. Additional BGB members have been deployed at the border. There is no reason for the general public to be afraid,鈥� he added.
