Three BSF men injured in attack (representation)
Kolkata:
Three members of the border security forces (BSF) were injured in an attack by Bangladeshi smugglers along the international border between India and Bangladesh in West Bengal, officials said on Saturday.
The incident took place near the BSF Bansghata post in the northern Parganas district of the country on the night of July 3-4, they said.
Soldiers from the 107th Force Battalion had ambushed the border area and when a group of 10 to 12 Bangladeshi smugglers were spotted around 3:30 a.m., the BSF men arrested them.
“The smugglers surrounded the BSF party and brutally attacked them with bamboo sticks and cleaver-like weapons called” Dah “,” said a senior BSF officer.
Three BSF men were injured in the attack, he said.
The soldiers fired five shots from their non-lethal pump-action shotgun in self-defense and subsequently the smugglers crossed the border into Bangladesh, the officer said.
An eight-kilogram package of marijuana was seized at the incident site, he added.
It is understood that one or two of the attackers were wounded during the firing of BSF troops, said the officer.
