Bangladeshi villagers on Sunday morning resisted an act of intrusion by Indian Border Security Force into Bangladesh territory in Jakinganj upazila of Sylhet.
Locals told 抖阴精品 that a team of BSF personnel entered Bangladesh by crossing the Surma River with a speedboat along Rasulpur village at Manikpur union in Jakiganj upazila at around 11:00am.
Local resident Zaynal Ahmed said that the BSF members, upon entering the Bangladesh village, started damaging various vegetables such as bean, tomato, eggplant, bottle gourd, and radish cultivated by villagers on the riverbank.
The BSF intruders also started vandalising bamboo structures used to support the vegetable plants claiming that the land belonged to India.
Immediately after noticing the incident, Rasulpur village inhabitants rushed to the spot and locked in a heated altercation with the BSF troops in protest of their intrusion into the Bangladesh village and their act聽 of damaging the vegetables, Zaynal said.
鈥業n the face of the strong protests from the villagers, the BSF members were compelled to retreat and return to the other bank of the Surma River which is on the Indian side,鈥� he said.
Border Guard Bangladesh-19 battalion commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Md Zubair Anwar confirmed the incident to 抖阴精品.
The BGB official, however, said that the BSF personnel came to review the position of the border pillars in the area.
鈥楤ut it was illegal for them to enter our country鈥檚 territory. Local people also protested against their action,鈥� he said.
The BGB said that its personnel also rushed to the spot within minutes and prevented the BSF members from moving further inside Bangladesh and sent them back to the Indian border.聽
The BGB official told 抖阴精品 that a patrol-to-patrol meeting was held between the BGB and the BSF in the afternoon at the Rasulpur border.
鈥楾he BGB personnel strongly protested against the incident of BSF intruding into the Bangladesh territory. A strict warning has also been given to the BSF to ensure that such incidents do not happen again in the future,鈥� said Lieutenant Colonel Zubair.
He also said that the Bangladeshi surveillance had been strengthened further along the border to prevent any kind of intrusion and smuggling.