UNB, Benapole :
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) rescued 29 people, including women and children, while they were being trafficked to India through Putkhali border here on Friday night.
Subedar Farid Uddin, commanding officer of Khulna BGB Battalion-23 Putkhali camp, said acting on a tip-off that some Bangladeshis were being sent to India through the border point, a team of the border force conducted a drive in Charer Math area of the border and rescued the gullible people.
The rescued people, who hail from different areas of Jessore, Khulna, Bagerhat, Satkhira, Narail and Gopalganj districts, include 15 women and one child, BGB sources said.
However, the human traffickers fled the scene after sensing the presence of the BGB team.
Later, the rescued were handed over to Benapole Port Police Station.
A case was filed in this connection.
