The Indian Border Security Force shot dead a Bangladeshi farmer along the Patgram border area of northern Lalmonirhat district on Friday, officials said.
The farmer, Abul Kalam Dakhu, 30, son of聽 late Afar Uddin of Srirampur union under the Patgram upazila, was shot at along the border in the Srirampur union of Patgram and died on his way to the nearby Patgram Upazila Health Complex.
鈥極ne bullet has exited through his left chest,鈥� said Patgram police station assistant sub-inspector Shahanur Rahman.
He was married and was a farmer.
With him, three Bangladeshis have been killed in BSF firing along the Lalmonirhat border in a month.
Police and Border Guard Bangladesh officials said that a group of Bangladeshis went to the bordering Patgram area in the predawn hours.
A team of the 169 Duradavari BSF camp that was on duty at the Indian border fired at them, leaving Abul Kalam injured.
Abul Kalam died on his way to a nearby health facility while he was being taken there by his associates.
The trend of killing Bangladeshi nationals along the Bangladesh-India border by the Indian Border Security Force is rising, with at least six Bangladeshis being killed in the first three months of this year, while four people were killed in the same period in the past year.
Rights group Ain O Salish Kendra documented that 30 Bangladeshis were killed at the hands of the Indian BSF alone in 2023, while the number was 23, including 16 shooting deaths, in 2022.
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 4,100-kilometre-long international border, the fifth-longest land border in the world.