Two members of the Border Guard Bangladesh were injured as smugglers attacked them to snatch seized smuggled goods in the Dowarabazar border area ​​in Sunamganj early Tuesday.
BGB 48 Battalion commander Lieutenant Colonel Md Hafizur Rahman confirmed the attack on a patrol team of the BGB.Â
He said that the BGB personnel seized a huge cache of garlic smuggled into the country from India at Bangla Bazar border under Dowarabazar upazila in Sunamganj at around 12:30am. At that moment, the smugglers launched an attack on the patrol team of the Banglabazar border outpost and tried to snatch away the seized garlic, leaving two of the BGB members injured, the BGB official said.
‘The patrol team, however, courageously handled the situation and resisted the attackers from snatching the seized goods,’ the BGB battalion commander said, adding that the patrol team also arrested two of the smugglers.
BGB 48 Battalion second-in-command told ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ· that the injured border guards were admitted to Chhatak Upazila Health Complex after the incident and they were undergoing treatment there till Tuesday evening.
‘The arrested were handed over to the Dowarabazar police station. The process of filing a case in this regard is underway,’ he said.
The Battalion said that they conducted separate drives in Sylhet and Sunamganj border areas from Monday midnight to early Tuesday and seized different smuggled goods, including Indian contraband phensedyl, sugar, wine, cigarettes, onion, garlic and cosmetics, worth around Tk 84,16,740.