Sylhet Bureau :
A teenage boy was killed and three Border Guard Bangladesh personnel were injured in a clash between border guards and smuggling suspects in bordering area under Kanaighat upazila in Sylhet Monday evening.
The deceased was identified as Siraj Uddin, 13, son of Abdul Mutlib of Sanatan Punji village under Kanaighat upazila, police officials said.
Local people said that a team of Suraighat border guard camp seized a number of smuggled cartoons of foreign cigarettes at the village at about 7:00pm.
The clash erupted when a group of local smuggling suspect tried to snatch the seized cigarettes from the border guards, they said.
Suraighat border guard camp commander Subedar Surat Ali said that the smugglers attacked them with sticks and spears and threw stones and brick bats forcing them to open fire that injured ‘one of the smugglers’.
‘Three BGB members were also injured in the attack. One of them was sent to Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital while the rest two were admitted to the local upazila health complex,’ the camp commander said.
He, however, could not say about the fate of ‘the injured smuggler’ as the border guards left the spot after the clash.
Siraj’s father Abdul Mutlib told reporters that his son went to the local market in the afternoon and he saw his son’s body lying on the ground when he rushed there in the evening, being informed by the neighbours.
Kanaighat police station officer-in-charge Abdul Ahad said that a teenage boy was killed during the clash.
Kanaighat upazila nirbahi officer Tania Sultana said that she was talking to her higher officials and border guard authorities over the issue.
A teenage boy was killed and three Border Guard Bangladesh personnel were injured in a clash between border guards and smuggling suspects in bordering area under Kanaighat upazila in Sylhet Monday evening.
The deceased was identified as Siraj Uddin, 13, son of Abdul Mutlib of Sanatan Punji village under Kanaighat upazila, police officials said.
Local people said that a team of Suraighat border guard camp seized a number of smuggled cartoons of foreign cigarettes at the village at about 7:00pm.
The clash erupted when a group of local smuggling suspect tried to snatch the seized cigarettes from the border guards, they said.
Suraighat border guard camp commander Subedar Surat Ali said that the smugglers attacked them with sticks and spears and threw stones and brick bats forcing them to open fire that injured ‘one of the smugglers’.
‘Three BGB members were also injured in the attack. One of them was sent to Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital while the rest two were admitted to the local upazila health complex,’ the camp commander said.
He, however, could not say about the fate of ‘the injured smuggler’ as the border guards left the spot after the clash.
Siraj’s father Abdul Mutlib told reporters that his son went to the local market in the afternoon and he saw his son’s body lying on the ground when he rushed there in the evening, being informed by the neighbours.
Kanaighat police station officer-in-charge Abdul Ahad said that a teenage boy was killed during the clash.
Kanaighat upazila nirbahi officer Tania Sultana said that she was talking to her higher officials and border guard authorities over the issue.
