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Indian Border Security Force have allegedly attached slices of bamboo to the erected barbed fence along the Zero Line of the border in Patgram upazila of Lalmonirhat.

A video footage, showing some BSF members setting up the slices of the bamboo to strengthen the barbed fence with the help of locals, went viral on social media on Thursday.


At that time, an argument erupted between the Border Guard Bangladesh and BSF members, showed the video.

Noticing this, the on-duty BGB members obstructed BSF members from erecting it but they continued it despite objections.

One of the BGB members reminded the BSF members that there would be no construction along the border as per the decision of the high officials of the both countries.

‘We will do the work, you [BGB members] do whatever you can,’ a BSF member in Hindi said in reply, showed the video.

Locals said that the BSF members were attaching the bamboo pieces to the fence along Dahagram border on Tuesday.

Md Jamil, a subedar of the BGB-51 Battalion in Patgram, said that they stopped the bamboo setting work.

However, it happened three to four days back, he added.

Earlier, the BSF erected the four and half foot-high barbed fence spanning one and half kilometre areas in Patgram on January 10.