A Bangladeshi national was shot dead by Border Security forces at the Latiyapura border outpost in Tripura’s Unakoti district during an alleged smuggling attempt, police said on Saturday.
According to police, a Border Security Forces constable, who was patrolling the border fence area on Friday evening, saw some people throwing bags over the fence from Indian territory while people from the Bangladeshi side tried to collect them.
After the border guard forces intervened, people from the Bangladeshi side assaulted the policeman, wounding him in the hand with a sharp weapon. Other border guards rushed to the scene to rescue him. Upon seeing the situation, the Border Police officer fired two shots at them.
While people from both sides were able to flee the scene, a Bangladeshi citizen was injured in the left shoulder and died instantly. His body was taken to the regional hospital in Kalasahar for an autopsy, police said.
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Last November, the Border Security Forces arrested a person in connection with the assault on two security personnel who sustained minor injuries after they were attacked by smugglers in a border area of Bishalgarh in Sipahijala district.
In another incident in January last year, an on-duty team of Border Security Forces was attacked by a group of Bangladeshi smugglers near the India-Bangladesh international border under Majroli area in Unakoti district of Tripura. However, no one on either side was injured in that incident.
Later in March last year, a Bangladeshi smuggler was killed and two border guards were injured during a clash in Magroli.
Tripura has an 856-kilometre-long international border with Bangladesh, most of which is covered by barbed wire fencing, but some spots remain unfenced.
