The Border Security Force of India has allegedly killed a Bangladeshi by stoning on him along the Haripur border in Thakurgaon, witnesses said.
However, Border Guard Bangladesh officials are not sure of BSF's involvement in the death.
The body of Abul Hossain, 28, was recovered from the Nagor river in Dabri area in the afternoon on Wednesday, BGB Molani camp company commander Sirajuddin told reporters on Thursday.
'Babul's body floated into the area near the border. On information from the local people, BGB members recovered the body,' he said.
The father of the deceased 'Shukuruddin' of Geduadangi village claimed, 'BSF killed my son by throwing stones at him.'
'Rabiul Alam' and 'Ali', who survived the incident, echoed Shukuruddin's claims.
Quoting witnesses, Haripur police chief Humayun Kabir said, 'Babul went fishing with some others when BSF members of the Fulbari camp started throwing stones when they entered the Indian portion of the river. Babul drowned when his head was fractured with a stone.'
Kabir said Babul's father had filed a case detailing the incident. The police documented it as an unnatural death case, he added.
The body was sent to Thakurgaon Sadar Hospital for autopsy.
BGB Thakurgaon battalion commander Lieutenant Colonel Abdur Rahman told the news agency that it could not be surely claimed whether the BSF had killed Babul.
The incident has taken place just 10 days ahead of Indian premier Manmohan Singh's visit to Dhaka, amidst calls for the BSF to stop killing of Bangladeshis along the border.
Indian home minister during his recent visit to Dhaka had said the BSF had been provided with weapons that could not be used to kill anyone.
Earlier, BSF men, from the Khonsal Danga camp, had killed a Bangladeshi cattle trader by dropping large stones on him from a bridge. Mizanur Rahman, 25, had been returning to Bangladesh with some cattle from India by crossing the Burimari border on June 30
Source : New Age
