A 50-year-old man鈥檚 body was recovered from near the Indian border at Darshana upazila of Chuadanga on Wednesday amid growing tension between the two neighbouring countries over border fencing.
Nazim Uddin, son of Ershad Ali from Dakshin Chandpur in Darshana municipality, was found dead in a maize field in the Border Guard Bangladesh border outpost area, approximately 1.5 kilometres from the zero line, said Darshana police officer-in-charge Shahid Titumir.
鈥榃e primarily heard that he was killed in Indian Border Security Force firing. But we did not find any injury marks in his body. We assumed that he died of stroke,鈥� officer-in-charge Shahid told 抖阴精品.
He said that the body was sent to the Chuadanga General Hospital morgue for autopsy.
BGB 58 Battalion commanding officer lieutenant colonel Md Rafiqul said that he sent a patrol team to the spot.
鈥楩amily claimed that he died of stroke,鈥� he added.
In Lalmonirhat, meanwhile, the Indian Border Security Force after recently constructing a barbed wire fence on the zero line at Dahagram border hung empty liquor bottles on the fence, defying the Border Guard Bangladesh鈥檚 call, 抖阴精品 correspondent in Lalmonirhat reported.
The incident caused fresh panic among the residents of nearby villages.
Around 12 noon on Wednesday, the BSF hung the bottles from the fence constructed on the zero line near Sarkar Para of the Dahagram border.
Tension has deepened in the border area since the final week of December 2024 over the construction of fences.
In the latest incident, on January 10, the BSF with the help of 30鈥�35 people constructed a four-foot tall and about 1.5 kilometre-long barbed wire fence on the zero line in Dahagram area amid a tense situation as the BGB protested against it.
鈥楾he BSF has put up a barbed wire fence and we are in panic. Suddenly, they have hung bottles on the barbed wire fence. We are in panic again,鈥� said a local resident Faridul Islam.
BGB 51 Battalion commanding officer lieutenant colonel Selim Al Din said that no new construction was attempted by the BSF. 鈥楾hey just hung empty bottles to protect the fence,鈥� he said.
In another incident in Thakurgaon on Wednesday, the BSF detained a Bangladesh national, Alimur Reza, 40, while he was allegedly crossing into India illegally through the border in Baliadangi area, 抖阴精品 correspondent in the district reported quoting BGB officials.
On January 12, the government urged India to refrain from any provocative actions amid tension triggered by the construction of fences in the no-man鈥檚-land at several points, violating international laws. The situation also prompted both the neighbours to deploy additional forces on the respective sides.
