Despite enforcement of curfew smuggling still going on, Bangladeshi smuggler injured in BSF firing in Meghalaya
Habib Sarwar Azad, Sylhet Bureau
A Bangladeshi smuggler named Shamsu Mia was shot by India’s Border Security Force (BSF) inside Meghalaya on Monday morning,.
A patrol team from the Rajapara BSF camp of the 193 BSF Battalion of Shillong in Meghalaya opened fire targeting four Bangladeshi smugglers 150 yards inside India across the Sunamganj border under the 28 Border Guard Battalion of BGB Sylhet Sector.
Among them, Shamsu, who was shot, is the son of Saktar Mia of Rajapara in the Chinakandi border village of Dhanpur Union, Bishwambharpur Upazila of the district.
On Monday morning, Major Md. Moinul Alam, Additional Director (2IC) of the 28 Border Guard Battalion BGB Sunamganj, confirmed the information quoting local residents at the border.
According to BGB’s 2IC, despite the imposition of curfew in Meghalaya, at some point on Sunday night, four Bangladeshi smugglers including Shamsu illegally crossed into 150 yards inside Indian territory through Main Pillar 1210/10 from the Chinakandi BOP’s jurisdiction area of the 28 BGB Battalion in Bishwambharpur, to bring smuggled goods back to Bangladesh.
In the early hours of Monday, when the patrol team of the Rajapara BSF camp under the 193 BSF Battalion of Shillong, Meghalaya, detained the smugglers including Shamsu, they got into an altercation with the BSF patrol team.
Then, enraged, the BSF opened fire targeting the four smugglers.
Shamsu, shot in his left hand, escaped back to Bangladesh with his accomplices and went into hiding while receiving treatment.
