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Bangladeshi smuggler shot dead by BSF in Malda

Bangladeshi smuggler shot dead by BSF in Malda
Kolkata/Malda: A 25-year-old Bangladeshi youth was killed after attacking Border Security Force (BSF) personnel while smuggling Phensedyl bottles from India on Saturday. The incident occurred at Gopalnagar in the Gulabganj police station area in Malda around 10 pm on Saturday.
The youth has been identified as Badsha Sk of Sahabajpur in Chapainawabganj district in Bangladesh.
The BSF maintained that only a single shot was fired from a non-lethal weapon in self-defence.
“There was an attempt on the life of a jawan of the 24Bn BSF posted at the Gopalnagar BOP. The attack took place after a group of criminals were challenged on the Indian side by our personnel. We had received information of an attempt to smuggle Phensedyl across the border and the post commander alerted his troops accordingly. Around 9.50 pm, 10-12 people approached the border fence from the Indian side, bearing head loads. A similar number of people approached the fence from the Bangladesh side,” a senior BSF official said.
On being challenged, the Indian smugglers fled, throwing their head loads across the fence. Some of the packages got stuck in the barbed wire. The Bangladeshi criminals refused to back off though and attacked the BSF personnel. One of them slashed a trooper with a ‘daah’ near his ear. The trooper fired his pump action gun (PAG) in self-defence. While his attacker slumped to the ground, the other smugglers fled the spot.
“Later, when the area was searched, the body, along with a ‘daah’ and three head loads were recovered on Indian territory. There were nearly 75 bottles of Phensedyl in the head loads,” the official added.
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