Man killed in BSF firing along Kushtia border

Kushtia: A Bangladeshi was allegedly shot to death by members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along Daulatpur border on Sunday night.
The deceased was identified as Bulbul Hossian, 24, a resident of Jamalpur village in Daulatpur upazila.
Sources at Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) said a patrol team of BSF of Nasirapara camp in Nadia district of India opened fire at a gang of suspected drug smugglers numbering around eight while they were entering Bangladesh through the border around 2:00 am.
Later, police recovered the bullet-hit body from Mathurapur Bazar in the upazila.
Nayek Subedar Abdur Razzak, commanding officer of Jamalpur camp under BGB battalion-47, said they had heard that a
Bangladeshi national sustained bullet injury by BSF men’s firing in the Indian territory but they could not trace the victim.