A Bangladeshi youth was shot dead allegedly by the members of the Indian Border Security Force along the Kasba border of Brahmanbaria on Monday morning.
Hasan Miah, 26, son of Daru Miah of village Qaiumpur in Kasba upazila of Brahmanbaria, was married and father of a boy child.
Daru Miah alleged that Hasan was a farmer and he went to the India border with his friends where the BSF shot him.聽
According to local sources, BSF opened fire on Hasan when he was bringing sugar sacks from the border area on Monday morning. He聽 was sent to Kasba Upazila Health Complex where doctors declared him dead.
Border Guard Bangladesh battalion-60 commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Jaber Bin Jabbar confirmed the news. 鈥榃e are investigating the matter鈥︹�� the BGB official added.
Kasba police station officer-in-charge Raju Ahmed said Hasan was involved in sugar smuggling as per the information they gathered.
The body would be sent to the district general hospital morgue for autopsy, he said.
The trend of killing Bangladeshi nationals on the Bangladesh-India border by the Indian Border Security Force is rising with at least six Bangladeshis being killed in the first three months of this year, while it was four in the same period in the past year.
Rights group Ain O Salish Kendra documented that 30 Bangladeshis were killed by the Indian BSF alone in 2023, while the number was 23, including 16 shooting deaths in 2022.
At least 1,236 Bangladeshis were killed and 1,145 injured in shootings by the Indian border force between 2000 and 2020, according to another rights organisation, Odhikar.
Bangladesh and India share a 4,100-kilometre-long international border, the fifth-longest land border in the world.
