South Dinajpur (West Bengal): An alleged Bangladeshi smuggler was killed and a Border Security Force personnel was injured in the Hili area of the Indo-Bangladeshi border in West Bengal on Friday. According to a BSF statement, a group of smugglers attacked a BSF jawan, who fired gunshots in self-defense, killing one of the smugglers in the process.
The deceased, identified as Babu, son of Abul Hossain, was a resident of Vill-Fakirpara under Hakimpur police station in Bangladesh's Dinajpur. The 61 Battalion BSF spotted some suspicious activity in the area Friday evening. A youth was seen running from the Indian border village Kundapura towards an abandoned rice mill in the general area of Hili along the Indo-Bangladesh border.
The BSF said that their on-duty soldier jumped over the fence and entered the rice mill to nab the man but all of a sudden he was attacked with bamboo poles and choppers. In self-defense, the BSF personnel fired one round in the air to scare off the smugglers. But, the smugglers continued their attack.
