Bangladeshi beaten dead by BSF
A Bangladeshi has been beaten dead by BSF members on Nitpur border in Naogaon district. The AP file photo shows BSF troops patroling at the India-Bangladesh border in Fulbari, about 25 kilometres from Siliguri of India.
A Bangladeshi national was beaten to death allegedly by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) on Nitpur border in Porsha upazila of Naogaon early today.
The deceased was identified as Jaria Murmu, 40, a resident of Nitpur village of the upazila.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. Lt Col Rafiqul Hasan, commanding officer of Border Guard Bangladesh battalion-14, said that BSF troops of Jagjitpur camp attacked a group of Bangladeshi men, including Jaria, while they were returning from India with cattle around 5:00am.
At one stage, BSF members beat Jaria mercilessly, leaving him dead on the spot.
Later, Jaria's fellows took his body to his house this morning.
Protesting the incident, BGB officials sent a letter to BSF for holding a flag meeting in this connection, CO Rafiqul said.
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